A new poll found that only a quarter of religious voters believe God destined Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election. White evangelical Protestants were most likely to agree with this sentiment.
Published: Dec. 17, 2024, 6:01 a.m. Many evangelical leaders celebrated Donald Trump ’s presidential victory in November as the fulfillment of God’s divine prophecy, but few religious voters agree with this idea, a new poll found. One in four religious voters said they believe God ordained Trump to win the 2024 presidential election, including many of Protestant faith traditions, according to a Dec. 13 Public Religion Research Institute poll.
White evangelical Protestants agreed with this idea at higher levels than the rest of religious voters, with 60% saying Trump’s win was ordained by God. Hispanic Protestants followed, with 45% agreeing with this view, the poll found.Eighty percent of white non-evangelical Protestants did not agree that God ordained Trump as president, and for Black Protestants, the number was higher by three percentage points, according to the poll. Higher levels of respondents who identified as Catholic, Jewish, other non-Christian religions or unaffiliated also disagreed with the belief that Trump was ordained by God, the poll found.Eighty-five percent of white evangelical Protestants and 64% of Hispanic Protestants supported Trump, while 83% of Black Protestants backed Harris. The poll sampled 5,772 U.S. adults between Nov. 8 and Dec. 2 and has a margin of error of 1.7 percentage points.Several evangelical leaders have spoken up about Trump’s win, depicting it as a fulfilled divine prophecy. The idea draws on different instances throughout the Bible where God appoints individuals to leadership positions both within the church and government. In January, before the Iowa caucuses, the Rev. Paul Figie — a pastor based in Illinois — told the Washington Post that Trump had been “ordained by God” to return to the White Hous
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