President-elect Donald Trump earned 58% of the vote from Catholics in Tuesday’s election, 18 points better than Democrat Kamala Harris, according to exit polls.

Trump fared even better with Protestant voters, defeating Harris 63% to 36%. Catholics and Protestants accounted for 64% of the electorate that voted the Republican back to the White House with “shocking” numbers.

In 2020, Trump lost the Catholic vote to Joe Biden by 5 points. Further, Trump captured 53% of Latino Catholics in this election, up from the 28% he received from that subset in 2020.

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