Put bluntly, those Catholics got Donald Trump elected.
We will see varying survey numbers on the Catholic vote in coming weeks. They will differ just as varying polling organizations had different estimates predicting the presidency and other contests. But at the moment, the Catholic numbers for Trump are extraordinary.
An NBC News exit poll shows that Catholics preferred Trump-Vance over Harris-Walz by a whopping 58%-40% (with Catholics representing 22% of all voters). Among white Catholics, the margin was 61%-35%. The Washington Post exit poll shows a 56%-41% margin.
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