The 2024 election season has brought unexpected polling trends, particularly within religious voting blocs. One of the most striking developments is Kamala Harris’s support among Catholic voters, despite her outspoken support for abortion, including late-term abortions.
Harris has long been an advocate for abortions up to birth. This stance, traditionally at odds with the pro-life teachings of the Catholic Church, seems not to have alienated some Catholic voters.
Harris leads among Catholic voters over former president Donald Trump, according to the findings of a new EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research survey two months away from the presidential election.
The poll, conducted from Aug. 28-30, surveyed 1,000 Catholics and has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.
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Catholic voters, like most of the electorate, consider the economy by far the most pressing issue facing the country and oppose transgender surgeries for minors and transgender males competing in women’s sports. They are divided on the question of who should set policy on abortion, U.S. support for Ukraine, and Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. The findings also reveal a significant gender gap among Catholic voters, while Trump is currently receiving support from 30% of Catholic Latinos.
According to the findings, 50% of Catholic voters currently support Harris for president while 43% support Trump and 6% are undecided. Harris is also ahead of Trump among Catholic Latino voters, leading the former president 60% to 30% overall but with 9% still undecided. This is important given the growing size and influence of Latinos in American Catholicism.
The vice president also leads Trump among Catholic African American voters 82% to 12% and Catholic Asian voters 58% to 35%. Trump carries non-Hispanic white Catholic voters by a margin of 52% to 42%.
Similarly, Harris leads the former president in every age group, with her biggest leads among Catholic voters aged 30-39 and 40-49. Interestingly, her smallest margin is among the 18- to 29-year-olds, Gen-Z Catholic voters (many of whom will be voting for the first time in 2024), where she holds a statistically insignificant lead of 44% to 43%.
While Joe Biden has become the most pro-abortion president in American history, Kamala Harris might be even worse. Harris would fight tooth and nail to impose abortions up to birth on the country nationwide.
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser called out Kamala’s pro-abortion record in comments to LifeNews.com.
“Kamala Harris is determined to impose on all 50 states all-trimester abortion without any limits, even painful late-term abortions in the 7th, 8th, and 9th month of pregnancy. Harris is so committed to abortion that she can’t see anything else – including the developmental stages of children before birth or the real needs of women. Questioned several times on national television, Harris refused to name a single limit on abortion she supports. She’s even praised efforts to shut down pregnancy care centers which provide real support for women and families in need while becoming the first sitting vice president to campaign at an abortion business. While Joe Biden has trouble saying the word abortion, Kamala Harris shouts it.
“In contrast, President Trump, JD Vance, and the GOP reject the Democrat attempt to impose abortion on-demand across all 50 states and support the right of states to place limits on abortion. They support providing real options to mothers in need.
“SBA Pro-Life America is leading the charge on the ground, delivering this contrast to over 10 million voters across the eight key battleground states that will determine the outcome of this election.”
Another pro-lie leader was equally concerned about the prospects of Harris and her radical abortion agenda running the White House.
“If elected president, Harris would press on with this Administration’s extreme agenda supporting expansionist policies that push abortion on demand at any time, anywhere, and under any circumstances,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Kamala Harris is radically pro-abortion and sees the lives of precious unborn babies as expendable.”
Kamala Harris is an abortion apologist who represents the extreme pro-abortion position of the Democratic Party.
“Kamala Harris has acted as the unofficial Abortion Czar of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Tobias told LifeNews.com, “She has toured the country pushing unlimited abortion and criticizing protective state laws that support women and their preborn children.”
As a presidential candidate in 2019, Kamala Harris campaigned on requiring states that have historically passed pro-life laws to seek “preclearance” from the Justice Department before enacting any new laws protecting preborn babies and their mothers. Laws passed in those states would be legally unenforceable under a Harris Administration without preclearance from the Justice Department.
Harris supports the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. While serving in the Senate, Harris voted against the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” which would establish a permanent, government-wide prohibition on federal subsidies for abortion and for health plans that cover abortion with narrow exceptions.
Harris also supports the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” a bill that would enshrine unlimited abortion until birth in federal law and do away with virtually all existing protections for unborn children and their mothers on both the federal and state levels, including parental involvement laws.
Throughout her political career, Harris has received endorsements and campaign donations from groups that promote unlimited abortion, including Planned Parenthood Action Fund, EMILY’s List, and Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America).
Priests for Life National Director Frank Pavone told LifeNews that whether it’s Harris or someone else, the Democrat nomine will be an abortion extremist.
“The key point right now for all Americans to remember is that no matter who ends up being the nominee in his place, it changes nothing regarding policy,” Pavone said. “Same destructive policies from the same destructive party: Pro-abortion, open borders, inflation, bad trade deals. A replacement nominee will not mean a better path forward for America.”
