Catholics and Election 2020: Biden Lean Increases | RealClearPolitics
As public opinion polls show Joe Biden handily ahead in his quest to become the second Roman Catholic candidate elected president of the United States, Catholic voters have emerged as perhaps the key demographic cohort in the 2020 campaign. Not a voting bloc, but a representation of America itself.
Catholic voters — increasingly non-white, trending more liberal in their younger ranks, and intensely concerned about jobs, the coronavirus, and health care — prefer Biden over President Trump by 12 percentage points, according to the latest RealClear Opinion Research survey done in concert with Catholic television network EWTN.
These findings comport with other recent surveys of Catholic voters, notably by the Pew Research Center. They also show Catholics, who constitute about one-fourth of the U.S. electorate, to be simpatico with non-Catholics — if slightly more pro-Biden — as Biden s lead over Trump in the RCP polling average has been about nine points.
In 2020, the diverse Catholic electorate is a reflection of an increasingly diverse American electorate, said John Della Volpe, the polling director of RealClear Opinion Research. Similar to national tracking polls, Biden s standing — in many cases, a 20-plus-point advantage — among Catholic women, Hispanics, independents, and voters under 55 (especially millennials and Gen Z) make it very challenging for Trump to narrow the gap in the final days.
I think LWJ (my wife) might be one of these women, in spite of her disagreement with Biden of life issues.