AXIOS (Andrew Pantazi) - Trump's pope spat risks feud with crucial Catholic swing voters
President Trump followed a Holy Week of profanity-laced threats with attacks on Pope Leo XIV and posting an AI self-portrait as a Jesus-like figure — risking alienating Catholic swing voters who backed him in 2024. Why it matters: Catholics are America's largest swing religious vote, and Trump's support among them was already sliding before his latest attacks on their pontiff. - Trump won Catholics by 10–20 points in 2024, depending on the exit poll, a dramatic swing from 2020. - Now, he has used campaign-style rhetoric to attack their pope as a political enemy. - "I cannot think of any parallels, at least coming from Western Christian majority countries, of such pointed and public attacks on the Pope," Andrew Chesnut ,…