The balloting historical past of the first-ever American pope stunned few when it used to be printed on Thursday that he participates in Republican primaries.
Cardinal Robert Prevost, who used to be born in Chicago, Illinois and is of French and Italian descent, is a registered Republican. He has voted in GOP primaries and common elections when he’s within the nation, consistent with his balloting document.
His registration, on the other hand, will have to now not be puzzled with give a boost to for President Donald Trump.
A 2014 tweet goes viral the place Prevost known as Jesus a migrant and a few of his social media content material has been vital of the president.
Turning Point Action printed his historical past appearing that as just lately as August 2023, Prevost used to be registered as a Republican and voted within the 2024 presidential election.
The new pope, who selected the title Pope Leo XIV, has a ‘sturdy Republican’ document, and consistent with conservative nonprofit’s information, he’s staunchly pro-life – now not an strange stance for the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Robert Prevost who has been named as the brand new Pope and can cross by way of Pope Leo XIV

Conservative nonprofit Turning Point Action printed the brand new American pope’s balloting historical past and the truth that he’s a registered Republican


But his registration and participation in Republican number one elections will have to now not be puzzled with give a boost to for President Donald Trump (pictured along first woman Melania Trump on the funeral for Pope Francis in Rome on April 26, 2025)
Prevost, 69, spent a few years residing out of the country and didn’t take part in U.S. elections all through lots of the ones stints out of the country or down south.
But when stateside, he voted in Republican primaries and common elections within the U.S.
Pope Leo didn’t vote within the 2016 or 2020 presidential election however did within the 2024 race. It is unclear who he voted for.
Though a registered Republican, it is beautiful transparent that Prevost does now not give a boost to a lot of Trump’s schedule.
The new pope made a sequence of social media posts vital of the president’s insurance policies and incessantly reposts sentiments vital of the Trump management.
Prevost particularly criticized the White House’s movements relating to immigration and prior to now has expressed give a boost to for modern reasons.
The ultimate time Prevost posted one thing to X used to be on April 14. The put up he retweeted slams the Trump management’s deportation of unlawful immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.
‘Do you now not see the struggling? Is your sense of right and wrong now not disturbed? How are you able to keep quiet?’ the put up reads.

A put up made on X by way of Cardinal Prevost in 2014 goes viral the place he known as Jesus a migrant

Pope Leo didn’t vote in elections when he used to be on out-of-country assignments – however used to be proven to take part in different Republican primaries and the overall elections, together with the 2024 presidential election

The Chicago-born pope didn’t vote within the 2016 nor 2020 presidential elections
Pope Leo XIV additionally shared a number of articles that deal with Catholic Vice President J.D. Vance’s stance on immigration.
One of the articles is titled: ‘JD Vance is flawed: Jesus does not ask us to rank our love for others.’
In 2017, Pope Leo reposted a message in give a boost to of DACA recipients, which might be undocumented migrants introduced illegally to the U.S. by way of their folks once they had been youngsters.
Pope Leo spent nearly all of his profession in Latin America or even was a naturalized citizen of Peru.

White smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, May 8, 2025 to indicate that the cardinals elected a brand new pope all through their conclave within the Vatican