AMB. CALLISTA GINGRICH: Catholic voters were critical to Trump's victory. Democrats should pay attention

The predetermination of Donald J. Trump connected Nov. 5 marked the opening of a caller aureate property for America. In his triumph code connected predetermination nighttime successful Palm Beach, Fla., President-elect Trump pledged to combat for each citizen, their families, and their future. 

"I volition not remainder until we person delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children merit and that you deserve," Trump said. "This volition genuinely beryllium the aureate property of America."

Voters person fixed Trump an overwhelming mandate to instrumentality common-sense that puts America First. Across the electorate, Trump made important gains among cardinal demographics, including among Catholic voters. 

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As I wrote connected Oct. 10, "President Donald J. Trump is making important headway with Catholics crossed America. … This momentum of Catholic enactment coalescing astir Trump is peculiarly important considering the spiritual demographics of cardinal battleground states."

Nationally, though Catholics were intimately split successful the 2020 election, successful 2024, Trump won the nationalist Catholic ballot by 15 percent points. According to exit polls by The Washington Post, 56 percent of Catholics voted for Trump, compared to 41 percent for Kamala Harris. 

Catholics marque up the largest spiritual denomination successful the United States, composed of astir 52 cardinal people. 

Consider that successful Pennsylvania, 24% of adults are Catholic. The percent of Catholic adults successful Wisconsin and Michigan are 25% and 18% respectively. Trump won each 3 states--and won Catholics by large margins. 

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According to Fox News Voter Analysis, Catholic voters favored Trump by a borderline of 13 percent points successful Pennsylvania, 16 points successful Wisconsin, and 20 points successful Michigan.

As Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, said, "There is an emerging electoral inclination present that Republicans, if they are smart, volition latch onto."

During the campaign, Harris couldn’t fell her anti-Catholic bias from American voters, going arsenic acold arsenic to archer students who said, "Christ is King!" that they were astatine the "wrong rally." 

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By contrast, Trump’s committedness to spiritual liberty was evident to voters crossed America successful his archetypal medication and during the campaign.

In his archetypal term, Trump defended the rights of doctors, nurses, and teachers to enactment successful accordance with their conscience. He appointed 3 Supreme Court justices committed to protecting our God-given close to worship. He signed an enforcement bid defining planetary spiritual state arsenic a motivation and nationalist information imperative and convened a gathering astatine the United Nations dedicated to ending planetary spiritual persecution and defending spiritual liberty.

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During the campaign, Trump nominated Catholic person JD Vance, whose woman was raised Hindu, arsenic his vice president. He launched the Catholics for Trump conjugation to reaffirm his committedness to protecting spiritual state and upholding household values. (Harris tried to bash the same, but her disingenuous connection intelligibly did not resonate.) He showed his enactment for Catholic charities by attending the Al Smith meal alongside Church leaders. And successful the aftermath of an assassination effort this summer, helium attributed the bullet’s adjacent miss to Divine Providence.

Catholic voters played a captious relation successful electing President Donald J. Trump, sending a wide connection astir their value successful shaping America’s future.

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