So if it was someone else instead of Al Smith, the Democrats still would not have won the White House.
Since JFK, many Catholics including
Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Jerry Brown, Edward Kennedy and Joe Biden ran for president but only one made it to being the nominee and he was John Kerry.
Out of all today's 23 presidential candidates for the 2020 elections, some are Catholics:
Joseph Biden (D), former vice president, from Delaware
Steve Bullock (D), governor of Montana
Julián Castro (D), former secretary of housing and urban development, from Texas
John Delaney (D), former U.S. representative from Maryland
Kirsten Gillibrand (D), U.S. senator from New York
Beto O’Rourke (D), former U.S. representative from Texas
Tim Ryan (D), U.S. representative from Ohio
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