The faithful departing – why Catholic voters are turning away from Donald Trump
Alamy
The President owes his election to a change of heart among American Catholic voters at the 2024 election. But one year after his inauguration, that support is seeping away
Before the conclave last May, President Donald Trump trolled social media with an AI-generated image in which he was wearing a white papal cassock (and a démodé white mitre). He was three months into his second shift as President, won in part thanks to significant numbers of Catholics who had voted for Biden in 2020 switching to Trump in 2024. No doubt his papal spoof signalled Trump’s confidence in the strength of his Catholic support. After all, he had appointed Catholics to many high-level positions in his administration, including his Vice-President and his Secretary of State. Yet now, around the first anniversary of his inauguration, Catholic support seems to be draining away.
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