Donald Trump Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump, pictured here at Trump Tower in New York, has a surprising evangelical following. (Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images) Randall Balmer Among the more bizarre developments of the campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination is Donald Trump's apparent popularity among evangelicals. Several polls show Trump garnering a plurality — though not a majority — of evangelical votes. Pundits, religious and otherwise, have been shaking their heads about this. Some evangelicals claim the polling is faulty — because it has to be! Devoted Christians, the thinking goes, shouldn't embrace a thrice-wed blustery billionaire...
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