Only 37% of white Catholics held a favorable view of Trump in May, down from a peak of 60% in March, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.
President Donald Trump’s favorability ratings have recently dipped among two religious groups that make up a core part of his religious base: white Catholics and white evangelicals.
The president’s approval rating among white evangelical Protestants, a key constituency, also dropped, from March’s peak of 77% to 62% in May. This is about the same as his average favorability among this group throughout 2019, which was 64%. The PRRI survey was conducted via telephone from May 26 through May 31 as the country reacted to the May 25 police killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. PRRI recorded a shift in opinion among all white Christians within the time that the survey was conducted. During the first half of the survey period, Trump’s favorability was 57% among white Christians.
Trump made a nod to both these groups during controversial photo-ops at two Washington, D.C., churches this week. Notably, the PRRI survey concluded before these visits took place and don’t measure the effect they had on Trump’s favorability among white evangelicals and white Catholics.
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