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Pope Leo XIV, the first Pope to vote in an American election, spoke about the responsibility to vote Wednesday after the 2026 midterms, addressing hundreds of people in St. Peter’s Square.
The Vatican confirmed that the Chicago-born pontiff submitted a mail-in ballot in Illinois ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.
Leo, born Robert Francis Prevost, “exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen,” according to the Vatican.
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“The exercise of political authority must always be directed towards the common good, which must be structured and operate according to local and historical circumstances, but always with the good of the entire human family at heart,” said Leo said in Italian to the crowd Wednesday.
The comments came as the US saw a blue tsunami of flipped seats across multiple states.
The party has flipped at least seven GOP-held Senate seats at the time of writing, including Texas, which last elected a Democratic senator in 1988, and Kansas, which last did so in 1932.
More than two dozen seats were flipped in the house, among them a Kentucky district President Donald Trump carried by about 15 points. Only four times since World War II had a party captured both chambers in a midterm.
“Politics that tends to the wounds of peoples and of those who suffer injustice offers grounds for hope for the future of humanity,” the Pope said.
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