WelCom December 2024/January 2025
While the exact breakdown of the Catholic vote in the 2024 United States election remains unclear, one expert notes exit polling data that is available suggests in future elections, white Catholics can be pencilled in as a significant GOP voting bloc. ‘White Catholics in every election cycle are becoming an increasingly stronger GOP voting bloc,’ Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, told Crux. ‘I think now we can just assume the Catholic vote is going to be 60-40, Republican vs Democrat, and it might even go up from there as things change.’