Evangelical voters, backed by non-profits like the Faith and Freedom Coalition, are ready to back Republican candidates in the 2018 midterm elections. The Coalition, a conservative
evangelical group that invested heavily in the 2016 elections, has launched an $18 million campaign to target congressional, Senate and governor’s races in 19 states, according to
PBS NewsHour. The non-profit aims to mobilize evangelical voters on issues that matter to them, such as abortion, religious freedom, and conservative judicial appointments. As found this summer in a
PRRI survey, 73 percent of white evangelical Protestants hold a favorable view of the president. Trump’s support among those evangelicals had steadily increased since the early fall of 2016 when 61 percent of white evangelicals viewed Trump favorably. In late
2017, PRRI found that 30 percent of white evangelicals approved of Trump’s job performance and said there was virtually nothing he could do to change their minds about him. PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones PhD, who was quoted in PBS NewsHour, argued that evangelicals’ support of President Trump is “part of their DNA at this point.”