Catholics & Asian Americans for 2020 Prospects

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Catholic partisans often express opinions that are much more in line with the positions of their political parties than with the teachings of their church.

Take abortion (which the Catholic Church opposes), for instance: Among Catholic Republicans and GOP leaners, 55% say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, identical to the share among all Republicans. At the same time, 64% of Catholic Democrats and Democratic leaners say abortion should be legal in all or most cases — slightly lower than the share for Democrats overall (76%). On balance, however, Catholic Democrats are more likely to favor legal abortion than to oppose it.

White Catholics are more likely to vote Republican, while Hispanic Catholics overwhelmingly back Democrats. (Most American Catholics are either white or Hispanic. Black and Asian Americans each make up roughly 3% of the U.S. Catholic population, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study.)

Asian-American voters continue to grow as percentage of the electorate — including in key states like Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Texas, and Virginia. Trump’s ability to connect with Asian American Republicans at the ballot box could prove crucial to his 2020 prospects. The RNC believes that it laid a solid foundation over the past 18 months that will allow Trump to grow his vote share with various Asian-American ethnicities, including Chinese American Republicans.

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