Kamala Harris didn’t 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 socialism as “incompatible” with their faith.
Harris, who spouted Bible verses when stumping before friendly church congregations, got the votes of 43% of self-identified Christians versus 53% for Trump.
Pentecostal Christians — a largely Protestant cohort that focuses on the work of the Holy Spirit — were most decisive, voting 74% for Trump and 26% for the veep. Harris received 34% of the votes of evangelical Christians, who gave Trump 64% support.
Harris’ celebrity endorsements, which reportedly cost her billion-dollar campaign millions to facilitate, had limited weight with Christian voters, Barna reported. Twenty-one percent of traditional black churchgoers and 16% of young born-again Christians said they took those endorsements into account.
The Post did not receive a response for comment from the Harris-Walz campaign or Rev. Jennifer Butler, a progressive Presbyterian Church (USA) pastor who headed its “faith outreach.”
Barna said he surveyed a national sample of 2,000 adults drawn from a national research panel over the three days immediately following Election Day, Nov. 6 to 8. The sampling error is estimated at +/-3%, with a 95% confidence interval for the poll.
