US presidential elections - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 05 May 2024 22:56:12 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg US presidential elections - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Catholics' support swings for Trump over Biden by significant margin https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/05/06/catholics-support-swings-for-trump-over-biden-by-significant-margin/ Mon, 06 May 2024 05:51:22 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=170471 Catholics in the US have swung dramatically against President Biden in recent years, now boasting a significant statistical break towards his GOP challenger. Pew Research released a report on Apr 30 exploring support for presidential candidates sorted by religious affiliation. The poll found that 55% of Catholics support or lean towards supporting former President Donald Read more

Catholics' support swings for Trump over Biden by significant margin... Read more]]> Catholics in the US have swung dramatically against President Biden in recent years, now boasting a significant statistical break towards his GOP challenger.

Pew Research released a report on Apr 30 exploring support for presidential candidates sorted by religious affiliation.

The poll found that 55% of Catholics support or lean towards supporting former President Donald Trump in a head-to-head against Biden.

Conversely, only 43% of Catholics support Biden in the same one-on-one pairing.

The 12% margin of support for Trump marks a significant shift from 2020 when he held an extremely narrow lead—50% to 49%.

Biden currently leads among Hispanic Catholics with a narrow 49%-47% split, but the close contest marks a major shift rightward for the demographic.

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Catholics' support swings for Trump over Biden by significant margin]]> 170471 Biden in trouble with Catholic voters https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/04/29/pew-research-biden-in-trouble-with-catholic-voters/ Mon, 29 Apr 2024 05:55:39 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=170206 According to survey data released by the Pew Research Center, incumbent US President Joe Biden, a Catholic, is battling a high unfavorability rating among his fellow Catholics. According to the data, neither Biden nor his Republican rival, former president Donald Trump, are viewed favourably by most Catholics surveyed, but Biden is the more unpopular of Read more

Biden in trouble with Catholic voters... Read more]]> According to survey data released by the Pew Research Center, incumbent US President Joe Biden, a Catholic, is battling a high unfavorability rating among his fellow Catholics.

According to the data, neither Biden nor his Republican rival, former president Donald Trump, are viewed favourably by most Catholics surveyed, but Biden is the more unpopular of the two.

The findings were part of a presentation on "Religion and Politics Ahead of the US Elections" by Pew's associate director of research, Greg Smith, at the 2024 annual conference of the Religion News Association, which concluded over the weekend.

Included in the data provided by Smith, Pew's late February survey of 12,000 US adults found that only 35% of Catholics hold a favourable view of Biden, while 64% have an unfavourable view of the incumbent president.

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Biden in trouble with Catholic voters]]> 170206 Evangelicals pledge tens of millions to reelect Trump https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/06/27/evangelicals-pledging-millions-donald-trump-reelection/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:51:31 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=118853 Evangelical Christian leaders are promising to pour millions of dollars into President Donald Trump's reelection campaign. While the politician has continually acted decidedly not Christ-like while in office, his willingness to enact their social agenda in exchange for campaign dollars and votes has won him their continued backing. The Faith and Freedom Coalition has announced Read more

Evangelicals pledge tens of millions to reelect Trump... Read more]]> Evangelical Christian leaders are promising to pour millions of dollars into President Donald Trump's reelection campaign. While the politician has continually acted decidedly not Christ-like while in office, his willingness to enact their social agenda in exchange for campaign dollars and votes has won him their continued backing.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition has announced they will go all-in for the President, according to The Hill. They claim they will register a million conservative Christian voters and mobilize an army 30 million people nationwide.

"Trump's support among Christian voters is at an absolute fever pitch right now," Lance Lemmonds, the group's communications director said. The group is led by anti-abortion extremist Ralph Reed, who has turned his gaze on LGBTQ rights as a more lucrative cash cow. Read more

Evangelicals pledge tens of millions to reelect Trump]]> 118853 Worshipping Princes Romney and Obama https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/10/19/worshipping-princes-romney-and-obama/ Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:32:46 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=35381

Whatever happened to American Christians' concerns over Mitt Romney's Mormon faith? Like concerns about Romney's conservatism and pro-life record, theological issues have been brushed aside in anticipation of November's election. According to Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, 'growing enthusiasm' for Romney's campaign has much to do with the Obama administration's support for same-sex Read more

Worshipping Princes Romney and Obama... Read more]]> Whatever happened to American Christians' concerns over Mitt Romney's Mormon faith?

Like concerns about Romney's conservatism and pro-life record, theological issues have been brushed aside in anticipation of November's election.

According to Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council, 'growing enthusiasm' for Romney's campaign has much to do with the Obama administration's support for same-sex marriage and his Contraceptive Mandate, which forces religiously affiliated organisations such as hospitals and universities to include coverage for contraceptives in their health insurance plans. Read more

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Zac Alstin is a freelance writer and part-time research officer for Southern Cross Bioethics Institute in Adelaide, Australia.

Worshipping Princes Romney and Obama]]> 35381 Forget the Mormon moment; it's about Catholics https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/08/28/forget-the-mormon-moment-its-about-catholics/ Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:31:11 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=32260

Forget the Mormon moment. The religious group that seems to be figuring most prominently in the presidential election right now is the Roman Catholic Church. With Mitt Romney's recent choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate, this campaign is the first in which Catholics are on both major party tickets. Vice President Joe Read more

Forget the Mormon moment; it's about Catholics... Read more]]> Forget the Mormon moment. The religious group that seems to be figuring most prominently in the presidential election right now is the Roman Catholic Church.

With Mitt Romney's recent choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as running mate, this campaign is the first in which Catholics are on both major party tickets. Vice President Joe Biden and Ryan are lifelong Catholics who attend Mass regularly and credit the church with shaping their views.

At the same time, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan plans a prime-time appearance next week by giving the benediction at the Republican National Convention after Romney becomes the first Mormon presidential nominee from a major political party. Read more

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Rachel Zoll writes about religion for Associated Press.

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