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Does the Catholic Vote Matter in 2024? by George J. Marlin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Does the Catholic Vote Matter in 2024? by George J. Marlin

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Pres. Donald J. Trump [Image via Wikipedia]. V.P. Kamala Harris [Image via Wikipedia].

By George J. Marlin,  The Catholic Thing, October 14, 2024

George J. Marlin, Chairman of the Board of Aid to the Church in Need USA, is the author of The American Catholic Voter and Sons of St. Patrick, written with Brad Miner. His most recent book is Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man.

 

After Kamala Harris declined the invitation to be on the dais of the famous Al Smith Dinner hosted by the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, columnist Joe Concha opined that Harris “clearly doesn’t care about snubbing [Catholic voters].”

Harris is the first Democratic presidential nominee to skip the event since Walter Mondale in 1984. That decision sends a strong message that a charity event honoring New York Democratic governor Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944), the first Catholic nominated for the office of president, isn’t an important forum for radical leftists who have taken over the party of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy.

This happenstance raises an important question.  Does the Catholic vote matter anymore? Vice President Harris seems to think it does not. …

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