CatholicVote.org President Brian Burch credited Catholic voters for giving President-elect Donald Trump his historic election victory.
CatholicVote.org President Brian Burch believes Catholics turning out for President-elect Trump was the reason he secured his second term in the White House.
Burch spoke to Fox News Digital this week about the massive swing of Catholics voting for Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, helping the GOP candidate earn a decisive victory. According to The , it was the largest winning margin among Catholics for any candidate since the dawn of exit polling in 1972.
“The Catholic vote is a large, multi-ethnic, working-class party made up of White voters and Hispanic voters and union voters”, Burch said. “And I think you could make the case that it was Catholics that delivered this election to President Trump.”
Burch, whose organization made its first-ever endorsement of a presidential candidate with Trump this year, broke down just how significant the demographic’s major shift was.
“Joe Biden won it by about two points in 2020. And depending on which exit poll you look at, it was as high as 18 points in 2024 for Donald Trump winning the Catholic vote”, he said to Fox News Digital.
NBC exit polls showed that 58 percent of U.S. Catholics voted for Trump, while only 40 percent voted for Harris. Biden, who beat Trump in 2020 and will now be replaced by him, was the second Catholic president after John F. Kennedy.
As one opinion column in Newsweek by Brian Kaylor recognized, “Among religious voters, the key group that helped reverse Trump’s fortunes were Catholics.
