Most Catholic Voters Don t Share Catholic President s Priorities | RealClearPolitics
President Biden walked on stage in the dark of the Howard Theatre and declared the coming midterms, then just three weeks away, the most consequential election in our history. Insisting that abortion was on the ballot this year, Biden promised that if Democrats kept their majorities, they would codify Roe v. Wade in federal law.
I want to remind us all how we felt that day, Biden told a congregation gathered by the Democratic National Committee of the Supreme Court decision to repeal Roe. The anger, the worry, the disbelief. He added, If you care about the right to choose, you got to vote.
It was a call to action from the man who is only the second Roman Catholic president in U.S. history and America s first and only pro-choice Catholic president. But in swing states Democrats must win if they are to preserve their Senate majority, and on the eve of the midterms, a majority of Catholic voters do not necessarily share the president s priorities.
A new RealClear Opinion Research poll, done in concert with Catholic television network EWTN, shows that a majority of Catholic voters in six key battleground states would rather let states determine abortion policy; believe that the economy remains the most significant concern for the country; and generally favor Republican challengers and incumbents in the coming electoral contests.
Joe Biden is a Catholic the way Michael Corleone was a Catholic. He might be popular in the Vatican and with various pet priests, but you would not want to be him standing before the pearly gates.