US Pope helped select Party candidate to the White House in 2012 and 2016; He has also been in previews Democrats
Born in Chicago, Pope Leo 14 voted at at least two Primaries of Republicans to choose the White House candidate.
A CBS News I identified the presence of 69 -year -old Robert Francis Prevost, pontiff on Thursday (8.MAI.2025), in the party’s previews in 2012 and 2016.
In the 2016 primaries, Donald Trump was chosen Republican candidate in a prior dispute initially had 17 names. That year, the businessman arrived at the White House by beating Democrat Hillary Clinton.
O Prevost voting history in primaries is mixed. The new pope attended the Democratic Party primaries in 2008, when Barack Obama was chosen candidate and then won the presidential dispute.
PREVOST is registered to vote in the Chicago suburb in New Lenox, Illinois. In all, the religious leader voted in at least 9 general elections, with 5 cycles of presidential election.
Pope has already criticized Trump’s deputy
Prevost US Vice President JD Vance (Republican Party) in February 2025. In X (former Twitter), he shared a which questioned the Trump government’s migratory policy, which has implemented deportations of illegal immigrants.
“Jd Vance is wrong: Jesus does not ask us to classify our love for others”, said the title of the report. The publication was made after statements by JD Vance, who became Catholicism in 2019.
Trump’s deputy had appealed to the concept of the order of love (“Order of Love”), formulated by St. Augustine, to justify a more rigid approach to immigration.
“There is a Christian concept that you love your family, then love your neighbor, then your community, then your fellow citizens and, only then, prioritizes the rest of the world. Much of the far left has completely reversed this idea.”said Jd Vance.
