<p>In many states, Evangelical Christians make up 50% or more of the Republican Primary electorate. While Donald Trump&rsquo;s competitors attempt to win religious support by quoting the Bible and announcing their faith, the Republican frontrunner has somehow managed to attract a big portion of Evangelical voters without making overtly religions ;statements. ;</p>
<p>Donald Trump has announced his ;Protestant faith and posed questions about the Evangelical standing of his rival Ted Cruz, but experts believe Trump&#8217;s success with the religious right is a result of his habits of ignoring political correctness and railing against our country&rsquo;s current decline.  ;</p>
<p>According to a recent nationwide NBC News/Survey Monkey poll, <strong>33% of white Evangelical voters favor Donald Trump</strong>. Cruz comes in second place with 21% and Ben Carson sits in third place with 12%. ;Overall, Trump continues to lead the GOP with 35%. Senator Cruz comes in second with a lousy 18% followed by Marco Rubio with 13%. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;It is very clear that he is acceptable to a lot of Evangelicals,&rdquo; says Tony Perkins, President of the Christian-based advocacy group known as the Family Research Council. &ldquo;If you think across the country of a segment of the population that has been more throttled back by political correctness or targeted with political correctness, it&rsquo;s Evangelicals,&rdquo; he said, explaining that Trump&rsquo;s refusal to be &lsquo;politically correct&rsquo; appeals to the Evangelical community. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;He has hit a nerve with large segments of the electorate who feel that the country is on a downward trajectory,&rdquo; says Gary L. Bauer of the Campaign for Working Families political action committee. &ldquo;That concern crosses all sorts of lines: social lines, religious lines, etc. And he has done a very effective job giving voice to that, and I think it explains why he&rsquo;s been a very formidable competitor for the last six months.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Although Cruz has won more Evangelical support than Trump in Iowa, some of his success can be attributed to Ben Carson&rsquo;s sudden decline. According to a Monmouth University poll conducted in December, Cruz had 30% of Evangelical voters in the Hawkeye State. Trump came in second with 18% and Rubio was in third with 16%. ;</p>
<p>Ted Cruz, who has made an aggressive effort to attract religious voters throughout his campaign, toured ;Iowa this week by bus. The most recent polls of Iowa voters show Cruz leading with ;31% followed by Donald Trump with 27% and Marco Rubio with 11%.  ;</p>
<p>While he may not be heard frequently quoting the Scripture, Donald Trump has his own way of supporting America&rsquo;s Christians. Nina May, a writer for the <em>Washington Times</em>, shares her story of a recent trip to New York:</p>
<p>May visited the Trump Tower, which she described as &ldquo;a microcosm of who and what America is at its heart.&rdquo; After seeing not a single Christian decoration while walking through the streets of New York, May was overjoyed when she walked into Trump Tower. &ldquo;&hellip;There was this tiny island of faith and magic in a sea of politically correct mediocrity that assaulted the senses on so many levels.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The bustle of a free market system decked in a reminder that we celebrate the birth of the Savior to the world, in a building designed by a man who could arguably be called arrogant suggested that he understands where his power comes from and wants to share that glory with the King of the universe,&rdquo; wrote May. ;</p>