More Americans say Trump administration has helped evangelicals than other groups
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** More Americans say Trump administration has helped evangelicals than other groups ([link removed])
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President Donald Trump has described himself as a defender of religious liberty. But how do Americans perceive the Trump administration’s effect on various religious groups? On balance, Americans are most likely to say the administration has helped evangelical Christians and that it has hurt Muslims, according to a February Pew Research Center survey ([link removed]) . Opinions about the Trump administration’s impact on Jews are more mixed.
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