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Catholics successful nan United States person swung dramatically against President Biden successful caller years, now boasting a important statistical break towards his GOP challenger.
Pew Research released connected Apr. 30 a study exploring support for presidential candidates sorted by belief affiliation.
The canvass recovered that 55% of Catholics support aliases thin towards supporting erstwhile President Donald Trump successful a head-to-head against Biden.
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People be Sunday wide astatine Saint Patrick's Catholic Cathedral successful New York City. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)
Conversely, only 45% of Catholics support Biden successful nan aforesaid one-on-one pairing.
The 12% separator of support in favour of Trump marks a important displacement from 2020, erstwhile he held an highly constrictive lead — 50% to 49%.
Biden presently leads among Hispanic Catholics pinch a constrictive 49%-47% split, but nan adjacent title marks a awesome displacement rightward for nan demographic. In 2020, a akin canvass from Pew Research recovered Hispanic Catholics preferred Biden to Trump pinch a staggering 67%-26% split.
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President Joe Biden speaks astatine an arena adjacent nan Edmund Pettus Bridge successful Selma, Alabama. (Cheney Orr/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Approximately 60% of protestants expressed support for Trump, according to nan April survey. Conversely, astir 38% said they leaned toward Biden.
Atheists, agnostics, and nan religiously unaffiliated collapsed successful favour of Biden by a ample separator — astir 69% said they would backmost nan Democratic incumbent while only 28% voiced support for Trump.
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Biden has leaned into his Catholic identity successful his statesmanlike campaigns, asserting himself arsenic a devout believer contempt blatant disregard for non-negotiable religion teachings.
However, Catholic leaders person pushed backmost connected this self-characterization and pointed retired his support of policies utterly contrary to nan faith, specified arsenic pro-choice deregulation and affirmation of gender ideology.
Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington D.C. antecedently called Biden a "Cafeteria Catholic" — saying he "picks and chooses dimensions of nan religion to item while ignoring aliases moreover contradicting different parts."
Timothy Nerozzi is simply a writer for Fox News Digital. You tin travel him connected Twitter @timothynerozzi and tin email him astatine [email protected]
