A majority (61%) of white evangelicals in the U.S. believe that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen,” according to a spotlight analysis published by the Public Religion Research Institute on May 12.
This is the only faith group surveyed to have a majority of respondents affirm the disproven claim asserted by former president Donald Trump and his allies that has been dubbed “the big lie.”
Mormon respondents (46%) were the next most likely group to agree that “the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump,” followed by white mainline Protestants (37%), white Catholics (35%), Hispanic Protestants (34%) and other non-white Protestants (34%).
All other faith groups surveyed had less than one-third of respondents affirm the claim of a stolen election – Jews (24%), other Christians (22%), Hispanic Catholics (20%), the religiously unaffiliated (18%), other non-Christians (13%) and Black Protestants (6%).
The full analysis is available here.
Managing editor for news and opinion at Good Faith Media.
