Trump faces an existential risk: Slipping Catholic support

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Polls have shown Joe Biden with a steady lead among Catholic voters, one of the most consequential voting blocs and a demographic the Trump campaign is counting on in tossups — like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio — to their side on Election Day

last week where Trump’s job approval rating among Wisconsin Catholics exceeded their support for his reelection .

It’s a concern that is particularly salient among Catholic voters in Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes region, where a cultural kinship with Biden, a practicing Catholic himself, has put the president at a disadvantage. And it’s a conundrum some of Trump’s allies begrudgingly admit could sink his shot at a second term.

Trump campaign aides insist Catholic voters will turn out for the president at similar levels to 2016, when the president carried white Catholics by a 23-point margin and won the overall Catholic vote by 7 percentage points, because he fulfilled policy promises on abortion, school choice and religious freedom, and installed three conservative justices on the Supreme Court, in addition to hundreds of judicial appointments at the federal court level.

Only 29 percent of non-Protestant/Catholic voters said they somewhat or strongly agree that Trump “keeps his promises,” according to a POLITICO-Morning Consult survey conducted after the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn., last Thursday.

Short said Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to Columbus, Ohio, on Columbus Day, a day in which many cultural Catholics celebrate the colonial figure, was “very intentionally” meant to shore up Catholic support for Trump in the crucial battleground state where polls show the president running neck-and-neck against Biden.

On Thursday, Biden published an op-ed in the Christian Post discussing the “abiding principles” that have guided his career in politics — principally the Christian commandment to “love your neighbor as yourself.” The last-ditch attempt to reach religious voters comes amid Trump’s repeated attempts at his campaign rallies to portray Biden as “against God.”

 

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now this is like the biggest bullshit story of the day hahhaha

' TrumpIsPathetic ' ....Pope Francis

Impeached Trump is KAPUT in 3 days. Break out the party hats!!!!

Catholicsforbiden OhioForBiden

Don’t buy this True Catholics do not favor abortion.

Do we know what we’re voting for? Zero scrutiny from main media on Biden/Harris. Can any of you name one thing Biden or Harris has done to make your life better in their long careers? Name just one! If we’re voting for a plan, shouldn’t there be some prior accomplishment?

Yeah, seems Catholics don’t think Jesus would’ve separated families and thrown the kids in cages with no plan to unify them with their parents

Is he Catholic does he live a Christian life does he love his neighbor does he have sex with a porn star while married?

SethAbramson Just read this on this topic. So I guess it dependa on the Catholics, but it seems like the staunch ones will continue their support.

The Biden campaign re-affirmed their commitment to Catholic voters but supporting policies like aborting babies in the 9th month of pregnancy, forcing nuns to pay for contraception, supporting larger abortion clinics in black neighborhoods, and no school prayer.

I blame the pope and his socialist rhetoric. No place for a for a guy like that leading the church. And yes, I’m catholic.

You mean to say some Catholics don’t believe Trump the Blowhard is Christlike? What a surprise.

BeSeriousUSA And let’s not forget many Catholic’s are Mexican and have not forgotten the atrocities Trump committed. Separation of families and putting them into cages.

SethAbramson Most Catholics are in name only, seriously.

They aren’t Catholic if they are voting for a baby killer

Conservative group behind 'Stand your ground' laws was forming plans to keep Trump in the White House, regardless of the vote, back in February. via HuffPostPol

You mean among apostate Catholic voters, right?

What voting bloc is Hillary counting on?

Biden come to peace come to Islam we find some part of justice in you because of obama

Literally Thank God...

Maybe it’s because many Catholics realize he might be anti-abortion BUT his policies go against sooo many church teachings and the teachings of Jesus!!

SethAbramson I would rather have The Pope sitting with SCOTUS, then HandmaidAmy

CatholicDems

Domunos Vobiscum

Wow Fox acknowlefges trump is behind

Wrong. I am a catholic voting for POTUS 🤪

Any Catholic who would vote for Biden after viewing hunters videos will be condemned by God. Good luck Z

brownberry1717 Should be all evangelicals

VOTE TRUMP OUT

Catholics voting for Biden should rethink their vote.

Yea, Catholics are like that. Hypocrites.

SethAbramson Polls don’t vote we vote. Let’s fight like we have a goddamn Republic to save. Vote2020 Vote Election2020 ElectionDay

VIGÍLIA DE AVIVAMENTO - OS PROFETAS ANTIGOS DO SENHOR - ExpressFridayVigil

How can anyone trust the GOP? They have been failing miserably. The lies are constant. Vote for new leadership in DC. Mask up and more, vote and care. =

Ignore the catholic faith to your own peril

It is spelled B-o-b-u-l-i-n-s-k-i.

Fake news

SethAbramson Good. Going for the Popes preferred type over the Bishops here who aren’t really Catholic!

SethAbramson This Catholic/Veteran/ suburban mom / former republican voted Biden!

SethAbramson What happened to all his evangelicals who loved him last election?

SethAbramson 98,583 new covid cases today, a record.

SethAbramson A lot of the Catholics have seen the light.

SethAbramson I'm a catholic and have never supported the orange one.

SethAbramson He never had my vote. I have to question any catholic who voted for a man who does the exact opposite from the teaching of Christ

Must not be pro life folks, May God forgive you

Good to know Catholic voters will forgive his abortion platform. After all what’s important is electing a shell of a candidate with contrary views to the Church's teachings.

SethAbramson This catholic family voted JoeBiden / SenKamalaHarris in Texas. VoteBlueToSaveAmerica

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