Pro-life advocate says Trump victory is 'huge' for Catholic voters: 'Morality matters'

Catholic voters were the biggest winners successful the 2024 election, the caput of a pro-life radical said.

"The triumph is immense for Catholic voters. Trump handily won the Catholic vote," Shawn Carney, laminitis of 40 Days For Life, told Fox News Digital. 

"I cognize the Al Smith Dinner gets a batch of attraction for that. That surely wasn't a omniscient determination for [VP Harris] to not spell to that. But I deliberation it's much than conscionable dressing up successful a formal oregon a tuxedo and going to a fundraiser. We Catholics ever get the content from, frankly, the Biden-Harris administration that they hated Catholics, and they hatred religion.

"We spot what they've tolerated, successful immoderate cases, encouraged what's happened to the Jews. We saw the DOJ people Catholics and people pro-lifers. And you conscionable got that consciousness that they didn't similar oregon respect Catholics."

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Shawn Carney, laminitis of the pro-life nationalist enactment 40 Days For Life, told Fox News Digital a Republican triumph for the Presidential Election was "huge." (Fox News Digital)

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

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

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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 13-point borderline of 56% to 43%. 

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

Pope Francis holds a thurible of incense arsenic helium celebrates a wide for the Virgin of Guadalupe successful St. Peters Basilica Dec. 12, 2018, astatine the Vatican.  (Getty Images)

Carney said Harris "ran connected abortion," pointing to the societal contented arsenic the candidate's downfall.

"Kamala ran connected abortion, and she celebrated abortion," helium said. "Her run was depressing astatine best.

"Latinos are against abortion. Catholics are against abortion. And adjacent the wide Catholics who are going to ballot Democrat who whitethorn tolerate abortion, they don't privation it shoved down their throats," helium said. "Her barbaric attack to observe thing that the Catholic Church adamantly teaches against was 1 of her galore downfalls."

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Carney said galore Catholic voters were "uncomfortable" with the near "celebrating abortion."

"I deliberation the different happening that they've ignored that Catholics successful America inactive attraction about, nary substance what you hear, is that morality matters," helium said. "And it doesn't substance however wide oregon blimpish a Catholic is. There's inactive a motivation objectivity to it that makes radical uncomfortable erstwhile it's celebrated by idiosyncratic moving for president."

Pro-choice Arizona residents rally connected a thoroughfare corner. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Carney said different apical issues were state of code and state of religion.

"There's nary uncertainty that Catholics were looking astatine escaped speech. And a batch of radical person criticized Donald Trump for galore of his stances. He's waffled connected termination astatine definite times," helium said. "But, by far, he's been the astir pro-life president ever, and he's been the astir pro-free code president we've ever had."

Carney pointed to Trump advocating connected behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor incidental aft the spiritual enactment was taken to tribunal for not providing contraception.

"There decidedly was that sentiment that, 'Look, if they're going to spell aft Trump, if they're going to spell aft Catholics, if they're going to spell aft pro-lifers, it's lone a substance of clip until they find thing successful our beingness that they don't similar oregon disagree with, and they travel aft us,'" helium said.

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"This was a immense escaped code triumph for Catholics due to the fact that the Biden-Harris administration, for the archetypal time, Obama ne'er did this. Clinton ne'er did it. George W. Bush ne'er did it," helium said. "They targeted spiritual people, peculiarly Catholics, based connected religion and the information that they had the powerfulness to bash so.

"And you can't people Catholics and expect them to ballot for you."