I saw that Trump picked CatholicVote president Brian Burch to become the Ambassador to the Vatican. It’s an unapologetic pay-off for the work his organization did on Trump’s behalf in the run up to the election. In the last election cycle, many Catholics reportedly voted for Joe Biden-- ‘because he’s Catholic’ – a rather low bar.
But this time, Catholics moved away from Biden perhaps because ‘he’s not very Catholic.’ Biden’s support for organizations like Planned Parenthood and Harris’s positions on transgender surgeries for children were major turn-offs for Catholic voters who threw their support behind Trump in a significant way.
CatholicVote is a political advocacy group that endorsed Trump in January and ran advertisements(Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ad urges Catholics to back Donald Trump | Catholic News Agency) in support the president-elect during his campaign. According to CatholicVote, the organization spent over $10 million on the 2024 elections.
Some ads running in key swing states, accused Vice President Kamala Harris of supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for minors.
“Burch represented me well during the last election, having garnered more Catholic votes than any presidential candidate in history!” Trump wrote. “Brian loves his Church and the United States — he will make us all proud. Congratulations to Brian, his wife, Sara, and their incredible family!”
According to a Washington Post exit poll, Trump won the Catholic vote by a 15-point margin this year — a 10-point swing in his favor from the previous election. Exit polls also showed Trump winning the majority of Catholic voters in vital swing states.
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