Voters with no religious affiliation voted for Democratic candidates and against abortion restrictions by staggering percentages in the midterm elections, according to AP VoteCast. More than one in five voters reported no religious affiliation.
with no religious affiliation, while Republican Donald Trump took 25%, according to VoteCast.
“When you consider how involved they are in political activity, you realize how important they are at the ballot box,” he said. __About four in five people with no religion voted for Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman, the Democrats elected Pennsylvania’s newest governor and senator, respectively. Several prominent Republican candidates and their supporters have promoted Christian nationalism, which fuses an American and Christian sense of identity, mission and symbols.
Differences between secular and religious Democrats showed up in VoteCast. Majorities of Democratic voters across all religious affiliations say abortion should be legal at least most of the time, but 6 in 10 Democratic voters unaffiliated with a religion say it should always be legal, compared with about 4 in 10 Democratic voters affiliated with Christian traditions.
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