PHOENIX – A new study by a researcher at Arizona Christian University says 32 million Christians who are regular church-goers are likely to stay home this election.
And that, according to the report by George Barna, is likely going to hurt Donald Trump more than Kamala Harris.
But Barna, the director of research at the Cultural Research Center at the Glendale school, said it doesn’t have to be that way. The key, he said, could be as simple as pastors “encouraging people to vote in order to fulfill their biblical responsibility.”
“An estimated five million regular churchgoers would be likely to vote as a result of that simple exhortation,” he wrote. “That, in itself, could change the outcome of the election by simply doing their job and getting congregants to fulfill one of their chief duties as an American citizen.”
Len Munsil, president of Arizona Christian University, called this a “blockbuster report.”
“Christians could be the deciding factor in a bunch of federal and state races – and are choosing not to be,” he said in a prepared statement.