29 percent of Americans still think Barack Obama is Muslim

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CNN poll revealed 43% of Republicans believe Obama is Muslim, as do 54% who identify as supporters of Donald Trump
Trump was vocal about his skepticism regarding Obama's citizenship in 2011 and recently stated he still doesn't know if Obama was born in the US
Obama publicly released his long-form birth certificate in 2011 that showed he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii
Only 9 percent of adults who believe Obama wasn't born in the US thinks there is solid evidence to prove their claim
Only 39% of Americans believe Obama, who was baptized and has publicly spoken about his Christian faith, is a practicing Protestant

By Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com

Published: 11:07 EST, 13 September 2015 | Updated: 12:33 EST, 13 September 2015

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Nearly 30 percent of Americans still think President Barack Obama is Muslim, and 20 percent don't even believe he was born in the United States, a new poll has revealed.

And more than half of Donald Trump's supporters believe Obama is a Muslim, as do 43 percent of Republicans, according to the poll conducted by CNN and ORC International.

Trump has been very vocal about his skepticism regarding Obama's citizenship and in 2011 while considering a tilt at the White House managed to get the president to release his long form birth certificate - seen at the time as a victory for the property billionaire.

Nearly 30 percent of Americans still think President Barack Obama (pictured here in 2007) is Muslim, including 43 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of adults who identify as supporters of Donald Trump

In April 2011 Obama released a certified long-form birth certificate that showed he was born at Honolulu's Kapiolani Hospital on August 4, 1961.

Despite the conspiracy theorists and Trump's recent statement that he still doesn't really know if Obama was born in the U.S., 80 percent of surveyed adults do believe he was born in the country.

When they were asked 'Where was Barack Obama born, as far as you know?', nearly 60 percent answered with Hawaii or Honolulu.

Four percent said they believed Obama was born in Africa, with another four percent specifying they believed he was born in Kenya, which is where the president's father was from.

One percent of Americans believe the president was born in the Middle East.

Of the surveyed adults who said they don't think Obama hails from the U.S., only nine percent believe there is actually solid evidence to prove their claim.

The other 11 percent said it was merely their suspicion.

Only 39 percent of Americans answered that they believe Obama is Christian when they were asked, 'Do you happen to know what religion Barack Obama is? Is he Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim, something else, or not religious?'

Obama, who was baptized and says his prays every day, has publicly addressed questions regarding his religion on a number of occasions and said he is a 'Christian by choice'

Along with the three in 10 adults who believe Obama is Muslim, another four percent answered that he was Catholic, two percent said he was Mormon, and 11 percent of Americans didn't believe he was religious at all.

Sixty-one percent of adults who believe Obama is a Christian were Democrats.

Rumors that Obama was secretly a practicing Muslim first began all the way back in 2004 during his campaign for the Senate.

Obama, who was baptized and says his prays every day, has publicly addressed questions regarding his religion on a number of occasions.

'I'm a Christian by choice,' the president said in 2010 during a question and answer session in New Mexico.

'My family didn't, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn't raise me in the church.'

'So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.'

I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith.

Twenty percent of Americans answered for the CNN poll that they also don't believe Obama was actually born in the United States. Pictured is Obama's birth certificate, which shows he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii