Kamala Harris didnt have a prayer with Christians but won nonbelievers: survey
LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t have a prayer with the nation’s Christians, a new survey reveals.The Democrat scored a decisive victory only among those who said they hold “no religious faith,” getting 64% of their votes, pollster George Barna of Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center said Wednesday.The crisis of faith in the Harris-Walz ticket among Christian voters comes on the heels of the veep’s failure to gain support from Muslims, per exit polling the Council on American-Islamic Relations released this week.And exit polls from Fox News and the Associated Press show 32% of Jewish Americans voted for President-elect Donald Trump this year, up from 24% in a 2016 New York Times exit poll and 30% in the same Fox-AP poll four years ago.Jewish voters in swing states also swung more toward Trump this year.
Exit polls show the ex-prez got 38% of the Jewish vote in Arizona, up from 30% in 2020; 42% in Nevada, nearly double the 22% he had four years ago; and 41% in Pennsylvania, up from 26% in 2020.Barna said the lame-duck veep lost the overall Christian vote to Trump by 13 points, 43% to 56%.That demographic was 72% of the 2024 voter turnout, he said.Catholics, who accounted for 23% of the turnout this year, narrowly gave Trump a majority, 51% versus 49% for Harris.
The Democratic candidate skipped the Catholic charity-supporting Alfred E.Smith Foundation Memorial Dinner, instead sending a cringeworthy video skit.
Trump attended the event.The media’s relentless jabs at Trump supporters they alleged were “white Christian nationalists” also stoked voter resistance to Harris, Barna said.“Thanks to relentless Christian-bashing by the mainstream media, as well as the dramatic impact of today’s culture on Christians, Americans forget that two-thirds of adults in this nation consider themselves to be Christians,” he said.The veteran pollster said many Christians saw Harris’ emphasis on abortion, open borders and s...