Evangelical Voters' Post Election Survey Response Grades Trump

A new poll shows that even though many evangelical voters went to the polls for Donald Trump, they give him a thumbs down for the way he handled the election.

The post-election survey by Pew Research Center shows overall voters' "grades" for the way Trump conducted himself during the campaign are the lowest for any victorious candidate in 28 years.

And Christianity Today breaks it down further, reporting that more than a quarter of white evangelical voters, who helped Trump win the election, gave the president-elect a failing grade of a D or F.

One out of five (20 percent) of those white evangelicals gave Trump an A, while almost a third (31 percent) gave him a B.

"Although evangelicals were more satisfied with Donald Trump than other groups, half of them gave Trump a grade of C or lower, and 18 percent gave him an F. Those are not exactly good grades," Amy Black, professor of political science at Wheaton College, told Christianity Today.

More broadly, voters' views of the way the winning candidate, the parties, the press and the pollsters conducted themselves during the campaign are all far more negative than after any election dating back to 1988.

Still, most voters, including evangelicals, are willing to give Trump a chance.

Virtually all of Trump's supporters (97 percent) say they expect Trump's first term to be successful; a smaller, but still overwhelming majority of Clinton supporters (76 percent) say Trump will be unsuccessful.

A majority of Clinton voters (58 percent) say they are "willing to give Trump a chance and see how he governs as president." Nearly four-in-10 (39 percent) say they can't see themselves giving Trump a chance "because of the kind of person he has shown himself to be."

Meanwhile, many voters are angry at the two major political parties for this election.

Only about a quarter of voters give an A or B to the Republican Party (22 percent) and the Democratic Party (26 percent). About three-in-10 give the parties an F (30 percent for Republican Party, 28 percent Democratic Party), by far the highest share giving the parties failing grades since this Pew series of surveys began in 1988.

Voters also give abysmal grades to the news media. Just 22 percent give the press a grade of an A or B, while 38 percent give it a failing grade.

About four-in-10 voters (39 percent) say the press was too tough in the way it covered Trump's campaign. Overall, voters were more likely to say the press was too easy on Clinton: 45 percent say this, while 21 percent say it was too tough on her and 33 percent say it was fair.