there are new indications that clinton is looking to go for expansion states. arizona, utah, and georgia. chris jansing part of the battleground at an evangelical church in atlanta. chris, you are in what s called jesus junction. what are some of the evangelical pastors telling you? reporter: i m standing in front of the ponce deleon church, 2500 member evangelical church and i talk to pastors who say how challenging this is. what do you say to a flock that wants to know why donald trump says the things he says? what do you say when they come to you one on one? they say, i can t agree and so used to voting republican. look at the polls. these numbers are really extraordinary. 45% support for donald trump and you might think a 14% advantage is huge but then think about john mccain who got 89% of the
reporter: enough to make a difference in november? donald trump only getting 60%. that s 20 percentage points less than mitt romney and that s a lot of voters in the state of georgia. reporter: thank you very much, reverend jennifer butler. john polled 80% in a state like georgia where 55% of all voters identify as evangelical. you can see what a difference that can make and why this is now considered a potential battleground state. craig? chris jansing from jesus junction there in atlanta, georgia, chris, thanks as always and we will be right back after a quick break.
you see why hillary clinton is looking at georgia as potentially gettable in places like here in atlanta and also in macon, there are african-american evangelicals prone to support hillary clinton, but seem to be energized to work against donald trump. jesus junction in atlanta. georgia is potentially a swing state this year. coming up, donald trump making claims the election is rigged and making claims about voter fraud. how many voters are buying it? that s the most important number of the day.
the struggle for evangelical voters in this election. our chris jansing joins us from a place called jesus junction. it s down in georgia. this is me, using a wrench to build a jet engine. well we thought ge programmed machines to talk. ge is an industrial company that actually builds world-changing machines. machines that can talk to each other digitally. hello? they don t talk to each other like that, ricky. shhhh, you ll anger it. he looks a little ticked off now.