Evangelicals back Trump on Jerusalem

Polls show that more than six in 10 Americans oppose President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, while white evangelicals embrace the move


Do you support or oppose moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? (Refuse/don’t know omitted)

SUPPORT 		OPPOSE
31% 	All Americans	63%
49% 	Republicans	44%
15% 	Democrats	81%
53% 	Evangelicals	40%
 
Was Israel given to the Jewish people by God?

YES 			NO
44% All Americans	34%
40% American Jews	27%
82% Evangelicals	12%
 
 
First question: Nielsen Scarborough/University of Maryland poll of 2,000 American
adults Nov 1-6. Margin of error: 2.19%, released by the Brookings Institution.
Second question: Pew Research Center poll conducted June 2013


Sources: Brookings Institution, University of Maryland, Pew Research Center 
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