Donald Trump’s evangelical base may be cracking

Newsweek interviewed Jacob Neiheisel about a new poll that shows President Donald Trump's approval rating slipping among evangelicals. “Evangelicals aren't going to desert the Republican Party en masse in the midterms,” he said. Evangelicals have been moving closer to the Republican Party since the late 1970s, Neiheisel said. “Evangelicals used to maintain that personal morality was a key reason to support one candidate over the other. Now, they use things like the biblical story of Cyrus to maintain that God can use imperfect vehicles (such as Trump) to more perfect spiritual ends,” he said.