You do know of the “bible belt” and how many states that is right?
A gay candidate has a better shot at being elected than a atheist. News would have a field day with a person who has “no morals” and all the extremes that can take that too, including but not limited saying that he believes in random things such as FSM.
Just being of different denomination of Christianity such as Mormon is going to be a big issue in this current election.