Faith voters could be key to who wins race to the White House

Trump’s people will want to repeat the 2016 result when more than 80 per cent of white evangelical Protestants voted for him and white Roman Catholic voters backed the Trump ticket by 60 per cent to 37.

Mr Trump, whose mother came from a Scottish isles Presbyterian background (the island of Lewis), is not seen as a particularly religious man, but conservative policies on social issues like abortion and adherence to strong maintenance of law and order traditionally make the party more attractive for Christian evangelicals,

While the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign has gained impetus as an anti-Trump rallying crusade, African/Americans comprise just 12.3 per cent of the American population of 330 million, while the Hispanic sector percentage is 12.5.

Mr Trump faces devout Roman Catholic Joe Biden, a man open and unashamed about his personal faith. Not surprisingly, Mr Biden is presenting himself as a Christian alternative to arch capitalist, more secular Trump. Biden’s backers say he is a man who attends church regularly, reads scripture and prays faithfully.