JD Vance’s new memoir could help with religious voters in 2028

JD Vance’s new memoir could help with religious voters in 2028

Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir about finding faith could help cement his early 2028 status as a GOP front-runner among religious voters. Vance’s book differs from the conventional political memoirs being pushed by other potential 2028 hopefuls, such as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). Titled Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, the book details Vance’s personal conversion to Catholicism. The book announcement comes…

Vance's Catholicism Book Cover Features Methodist Church

J.D. Vance’s memoir is about his road to Catholicism and has no connection to Methodism.

A Man of Deep Religious Principle

There’s something deeply telling about JD Vance putting a cover of a rural Methodist church on the cover of his book about his conversion to Catholicism. First, there is no more Protestant move in the entire playbook than choosing a religion based on your politics. Vance converted to Catholicism not because he believes in the Catholic social justice mission or cares about transubstantiation. He converted because he finds the fundamentalist far-r…