Catholic swing voters were critical to Donald Trump’s blowout victory: ‘Harris snubbed us’

Catholic voters crossed the state swung massively towards Donald Trump successful the 2024 election, contributing to his surprise blowout triumph connected predetermination night.

Catholics were evenly divided betwixt President Joe Biden and Trump successful 2020, with 50 percent favoring Trump to 49 percent favoring Biden.

According to exit polling collected by Fox News connected predetermination night, Catholics crossed the state swung 9 percent points successful Trump’s favor, with the erstwhile and now-future president winning Catholics by 10 points.

Bill Donohue, president of the spiritual civilian rights radical the Catholic League, told Fox News Digital that Catholics resoundingly rejected Harris due to the fact that of what helium called a "clear animus against Catholics."  

"She was rejected chiefly due to the fact that she is associated with the authorities of extremism, and that is thing the American radical volition ne'er countenance," helium said.  

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Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks during a run event, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, successful Mint Hill, N.C.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

There are astir 52 cardinal Catholic adults successful the U.S., making it the largest spiritual denomination successful the country. Until now, governmental opinions among Catholic voters person been divided betwixt the 2 parties, starring galore to judge that determination is nary specified happening arsenic a Catholic voting bloc.

But aft Tuesday’s predetermination results, Brian Burch, president of the blimpish activism radical CatholicVote, is saying that Catholic voters proved that mentation wrong.

"There is an emerging electoral inclination present that Republicans, if they are smart, volition latch onto," helium told Fox News Digital.

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Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sen. JD Vance arrives to ballot astatine the St. Anthony of Padua Maronite Catholic Church connected predetermination day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, successful Cincinnati.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CatholicVote issued its archetypal statesmanlike endorsement successful its past for Trump successful January. 

The radical devoted $10 cardinal to advertising, acquisition and a "Catholic-to-Catholic" canvassing programme emphasizing the captious plaything states.

According to a CatholicVote memo shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, the radical contacted implicit 2 cardinal Catholic voters crossed the country, including astir 100,000 "high affinity, debased propensity Catholics" successful the plaything states Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

The memo states that the 2024 predetermination has proven that "Democrats person a Catholic problem, and indispensable present wrestle with the increasing power of the progressive helping of [the] enactment that is openly hostile to radical of faith."

About 100 Catholics rallied extracurricular the governor's home.  (CatholicVote)

Burch explained that "Democrats successful the past person been capable to clasp unneurotic a batch of Catholic voters, whether by contented oregon by platitudes astir societal justness and posturing arsenic if they cared astir the mediocre and vulnerable."

"It turns retired successful this election, the mediocre and susceptible are the radical suffering from ostentation and from an out-of-control borderline that had created transgression and instability successful their communities," helium said.

While the Catholic plaything exceeded expectations connected the nationalist level, the borderline of Catholic voters favoring Trump was adjacent larger successful immoderate of the astir captious plaything states.

In Pennsylvania, which has 19 electoral votes and was considered the most important plaything authorities by some candidates, Catholics marque up a 4th of the electorate. According to Fox exit polling, Catholic voters successful Pennsylvania favored Trump by a borderline of 56 to 43 percent, that is 13 points. 

People enactment up to ballot successful the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike predetermination connected Election Day astatine Park Tavern successful Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., November 5, 2024.  (REUTERS/Cheney Orr)

Meanwhile, Catholic voters successful 2 of the adjacent largest plaything states – North Carolina (16 electoral votes) and Michigan (15 electoral votes) – voted successful Trump’s favour by 17 and 20 percent points, respectively.

Trump besides won Wisconsin Catholics by 16 percent points, helping to present the state’s 10 electoral votes to the erstwhile president.

According to the CatholicVote memo, determination were 2 cardinal moments successful the 2024 statesmanlike contention successful which Harris mislaid the Catholic vote. The archetypal was erstwhile Harris told protestors successful La Crosse, Wisconsin, that they were "at the incorrect rally" aft they shouted, "Jesus is lord." The 2nd was erstwhile Harris said successful an NBC interrogation that she opposed spiritual exemptions for doctors providing abortions.

"Kamala Harris snubbed us, and she repeatedly affirmed our deepest fears astir her animus and bigotry towards Catholics. She opposed a judicial nominee due to the fact that helium was Catholic. She introduced authorities that would chopped our charities. She said determination would beryllium nary accommodations for Catholics erstwhile it came to her termination policies, which would efficaciously person ended Catholic wellness attraction successful America," helium explained. 

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris looks astatine a show of the lawsuit from backstage, conscionable earlier taking the signifier for her last run rally, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, successful Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

In short, Burch said it became wide that Harris presented "a menace to our Catholic mode of life."

Meanwhile, Burch said that Trump’s connection of improving the system and restoring instrumentality and order to the borderline and to communities has progressively connected with mundane working-class Catholics. 

What has emerged, Burch said, is simply a "new synthesis" of what helium called "a populist societal justness that prioritizes household archetypal policies, America archetypal economical policies, and then, successful a larger way, the plight of the mundane American who feels near down by their ain government."

US President Donald Trump holds a flashlight during a sojourn to the Cavalry Chapel successful Guaynabo, Puerto Rico connected October 3, 2017. Nearly 2 weeks aft Hurricane Maria thrashed done the US territory, overmuch of the islands remains abbreviated of nutrient and without entree to powerfulness oregon drinking water. ( (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images))

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Burch shared that helium has been successful interaction with Trump’s argumentation advisors "fairly regularly" astir the issues astir important to mundane Catholics and their families. He said that helium spoke with Trump conscionable earlier helium took the signifier astatine a rally successful Milwaukee past Friday night.

"We spoke astir the value of the Catholic ballot and I told him that … Catholics were going to present this predetermination for him," helium said. "It turns retired I was right."