Where Biden Could Lose Faithful Catholic Voters – By Ashley McGuire (Real Clear Politics) / Oct 30 2020
With just days to go, Joe Biden is making a last-ditch effort to convince voters that he is a faithful Catholic.
At least Catholic voters, that is. Self-identified Catholics, dubbed a “big prize” by the Pew Research Center, are the largest group of religious voters and have been deemed a major swing vote by political pundits. In the last presidential election, President Donald Trump took home the prize of the Catholic vote.
It could be in reach for Biden. Recent polling by EWTN and RealClear Opinion Research find that Biden is leading with “likely Catholic voters,” and prominent Catholics ranging from comedian Jeannie Gaffigan to Georgetown’s John Carr have resignedly endorsed him. But his play for Catholics is deeply fraught by his own record on important Catholic issues, with his critics going so far as to call him a “Catholic in name only.”
He startled Catholics, for example, when he took a swipe at the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of nuns that cares for the dying elderly poor, just hours after the Supreme Court had ruled once and for all that they would not be forced to provide abortion drugs through their healthcare plans as a part of the Affordable Care Act. Biden said that he was “disappointed” in the ruling and vowed to rescind the executive order protecting them that the court had just upheld.
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