Are white Evangelicals losing faith in Trump? New poll sees sliding support among key voting bloc

President Donald Trump’s approval rating among white Evangelicals has declined notably in recent months, according to a new national poll.

A recent NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll found that 64% of white Evangelicals approve of the job Trump is doing as president, down from 72% in a January 2025 survey by the same pollsters. 

The poll drew from a national survey conducted April 27–30 of 1,322 adults with a margin of error of ±3.1 percentage points.

The drop continues a longer-term trend. The same NPR/PBS News/Marist polls show Trump’s net approval rating among white Evangelicals falling from +50 in January 2025 to +30 in April 2026 — a 20-point decline.

A year ago, Pew Research Center polling in April 2025 showed Trump with a 72% approval rating among white Evangelical Protestants early in his second term. By early 2026, Pew reported it had slipped to 69%.

Despite the erosion, white Evangelicals remain far more supportive of Trump than the general public. The most recent NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll found that 59% of all respondents disapproved of Trump’s performance, while 37% approved and 4% were unsure. 

White Evangelicals have been a key voting bloc in all three of Trump’s presidential campaigns,  with exit polls showing that they made up about 23% of the electorate in the 2024 election. In that election, when Trump beat then-Vice President Kamala Harris, 82% of white Evangelicals backed the Republican presidential nominee.

In the 2020 election, when he lost to former President Joe Biden, exit polls showed that Trump received 76% of the white Evangelical vote. Exit polls from the 2016 election, when he defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, showed Trump receiving 80% of the white Evangelical vote.

With rising gas prices, inflation concerns and uncertainty over a peace deal with Iran, even the president’s most visible supporters have expressed concerns about his performance, particularly on Easter Sunday, when Trump gave “praise” to “Allah” in a post on Truth Social, drawing bipartisan backlash. The most recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows that 32% of white Evangelicals said that gas prices have put a “major strain” on their household budgets, while 48% identified gas prices as a “minor strain.”

When asked how much, if at all, they blamed Trump for the gas prices, 27% of white Evangelicals put a “great deal” of blame on the president, while 13% placed a “good amount” of blame on him. Slightly more than half (54%) of white Evangelicals approved of Trump’s handling of Iran, while 37% disapprove. 

Although Trump has seen his approval rating with white Evangelicals slip, the NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows that the overwhelming majority of the key voting bloc plans to back Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections that will determine which party controls Congress for the last two years of Trump’s presidency. Sixty-nine percent of white Evangelicals plan to support the Republican candidate running in their district, while 24% intend to support the Democratic candidate.