U.S. President Donald Trump attends an event to announce a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk on to reduce the prices of GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs during an event in the Oval Office at the White House. (REUTERS)
“[W]hite Christians, who played a key role in returning Donald Trump to the White House, are losing confidence in President Trump’s policies,” reports Religion News Service, citing recent Pew Research numbers.
Support from white evangelicals fell nearly 10 points from 66 percent to 58 percent during the first year of Trump's second term. That drop echoed similar declines among white Catholics, whose support fell from 51 percent last year to 46 percent this year. White Protestants who are not evangelical represented the deepest drop, falling from 46 percent to 33 percent, according to the Monday survey.
Confidence that Trump acts ethically dropped even more, with only 40 percent of white evangelicals believing the president behaves morally — down from 55 percent in 2025.
Despite that drop, white Christian support for Trump still remained his strongest among racial denominations, with other races pulling a devastating amount of support. Only 18 percent of Hispanic Catholics, had any support for the president and only 6 percent of Black Protestants showed any approval of Trump. Only 13 percent of religiously unaffiliated were likely to support Trump’s policies. And all three groups were the least likely to have confidence in the president’s ethics.
Religion News Service reports this could be a problem for Trump and his Republican Party in the midterms and in the next national election.
“Because of their presence in swing states, white Catholics and white non-evangelical Protestants played a key role in the 2024 presidential election. More than half of white non-evangelical Protestants voted for Trump, as did 62 percent of white Catholics and 81 percent of white evangelicals,” Religion News Service said.
It also does not help Trump or his party that faith groups opposing Trump “are more likely to side with Democrats.”
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