EVANGELICAL Christians voted overwhelmingly for the
Republican party in the latest US midterm elections, but their lower turnout
contributed to sweeping Democrat victories, exit poll analysis has found.
Eighty-two per cent of Evangelicals supported Republicans — very slightly more than the number who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 — but their percentage of the national vote declined by a quarter, from 23 per cent to 17 per cent. (Read More)
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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments:
The Church Times reported on November 13, 2026, that U.S.
Evangelical turnout dropped during the midterm elections. I suppose these
Evangelical Christians, for some reason, thought it would be better not to vote
at all in 2026 than to vote for Republicans or Democrats running for the House
of Representatives, the Senate, and state offices across the U.S. Was it really
a wise decision for them, as Bible-believing Christians, not to vote for
Republicans?
On November 9, 2026, The Christian Post carried this headline: "Top reactions from Christian leaders to 'catastrophe' of midterms: 'We are under God's judgment.'" In their article, they noted,
"The midterm elections delivered a devastating generational defeat to the Republican Party as Democrats swept races coast to coast last week, regaining both houses of Congress, flipping six governors' offices, and seizing hundreds of seats in state legislatures. "Evangelical voter turnout saw a marked decline this year compared to previous elections, leaving some Christians reeling from the overwhelming victory of the Democratic Party, which some discern has grown overtly hostile to biblical Christianity as it cozies up to far-left socialism, LGBT ideology, and Islam. "'It is heartbreaking that the Evangelical vote did not show up this year. The sad result is hundreds of pro-abortion, LGBTQ advocates, and antisemites just won races all over America,' Gary Bauer, president of the Virginia-based conservative advocacy organization American Values, told All Israel News. 'The church is committing political suicide,' he added."
On November 10, 2026, The Gateway Pundit published an article reporting on a blunt warning from Pastor Jack Hibbs that the failure of millions of evangelical Christians to vote had real consequences:
"In a fiery
address to his congregation in the days after the November 3 midterms, an
American pastor delivered a blunt warning about what he described as an
accelerating Islamic political advance into U.S. government at every
level. "Displaying the results of
Muslim candidates’ historic gains, Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino
Hills, California, told his flock that failure by millions of evangelical
Christians to vote had real consequences, and that churches must stop
functioning as 'irrelevant social clubs' and start organizing as voting bases
the way mosques do. 'Ladies and gentlemen, those of you who didn’t vote, you
voted,' Hibbs said. '255 Muslims who cannot, cannot swear allegiance to the
Constitution. It is forbidden in Islam. They must swear allegiance to Sharia
law, which is a completely different government. On Tuesday, the United States
of America said no to the republic and yes to the very government and military
and religion that hit us on September 11th, 2001. We have surrendered. It’s
their party now.'"
