Former President Donald Trump is well ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris when it comes to Catholic voters in critical swing states, according to the results of a newly released poll. The data, which was published by National Catholic Reporter on Wednesday discovered that among Catholic voters in states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Trump was in the lead over Harris. For the most part, Catholics tend to lean pretty conservative, so that’s not too shocking, but still wonderful news.
The Christian Post is reporting:
The data was drawn from an online research study conducted by Mercury Analytics from Oct. 3-8 of 1,172 Catholic voters in seven swing states, with an overall margin of error of +/- 2.86% with a 95% confidence level. When asked by NCR who they would vote for if the election were held today, 50% of respondents said they would “probably” or “definitely” vote for Trump, while 45% said they would “probably” or “definitely” vote for Harris. The remainder either responded that they were “not sure” who they would be voting for or that they were “voting for someone else.”
When the survey focused on white Catholic participants, the former president’s lead jumped to 16 percent, while the vice president still had a significant lead with Hispanic Catholics at 67 percent, and black Catholics at 77 percent. Younger Catholic voters (18-29), were slightly more in favor of Harris than Trump at 47 percent to 46 percent, while those belonging to the 50-64 demographic were mostly on board with the 45th president at 54 percent to Harris’ 43 percent.
An analysis of the poll that was published on Monday by NCR stated that Catholics who live in swing states “were more likely to say they support their preferred candidate for reasons that go against [Catholic] church teaching, with Trump supporters favoring his anti-[illegal] immigration policies and Harris voters backing her views on reproductive rights.”
“In the battleground states, Catholic populations are sizable and are seen as so important to the Trump and Harris campaigns that both have launched efforts to woo the so-called Catholic vote. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, for example, approximately one-quarter of adults identify as Catholic,” NCR went on to add. “The Republican nominee also leads overall among Catholic voters in five of the seven individual states, although some are within the margin of error. The former president does have larger leads in Wisconsin, where he is up by 18 percentage points, and in Michigan, where he leads by 12 points among Catholic voters.”
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The report discovered that 75 percent of those who responded to the survey stated the issue that was their number one concern was the economy, followed by the border at 60 percent, healthcare at 53 percent, taxes 52 percent, and affordable housing coming in at 46 percent.
The Pew Research Center recently released a report that found 52% of Catholics planned to vote for Trump, while 47% planned to vote for Harris. The same study found that 61% of Protestants backed Trump while 37% of Protestants backed Harris.
“Last month, Harris garnered controversy when she announced that she was not going to attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a Catholic charitable dinner event that presidential candidates from both parties have traditionally attended for decades,” CP concluded.