Preliminary exit poll data suggests white evangelical Christians, who have long been among President Donald Trump s staunchest supporters, showed up strongly for Republican House candidates in the 2018 midterm elections .

Seventy-five percent of white respondents who identified as born-again or evangelical Christians voted for Republican House candidates, according to exit poll data presented by NBC .

The demographics support for the GOP appeared to be largely stable since the last midterm elections in 2014, when 78 percent of white evangelicals voted for Republican House candidates .

White evangelicals support for Republican candidates held firm even as an array of diverse Democratic candidates helped topple the GOPs eight-year hold on the House of Representatives .