2024 ELECTION/ISRAEL/RELIGION: “In another sign Donald Trump is eyeing a run to regain the White House, the former president and his religious advisers announced the launch of a national faith advisory board on Thursday (Sept. 2), apparently aimed at reinvigorating his conservative Christian base…
In discussing the Catholic vote, he acknowledged he had lost ground with the bloc in his four years in office.
‘I’m a little bit surprised that we didn’t do better with the Catholic vote,’ Trump said. ‘I think now they would give us a vote. I think we got about 50 percent of the vote.’…
The former president expressed frustration with the lack of support from Jewish voters, despite his administration’s support of Israel. ‘Look what I did with the embassy in Jerusalem and what I did with so many other things. … Israel has never had a better friend, and yet I got 25 percent of the vote,’ Trump said. ‘I think they have to get together.’”
-Jack Jenkins, “Donald Trump says he’s ‘surprised’ he did not get more of the Catholic vote in 2020,” americanmagazine.org, September 7, 2021