This is the one American both Democrats and Republicans agree they love

Americans are expectedly split along party lines in their support for most leading political newsmakers, from Vice President JD Vance to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

But a new poll shows people across the political spectrum look favorably on one key, albeit nonpolitical, figure.

Three months after he was elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV enjoys a 46-point net favorable rating among U.S. adults, according to a Gallup poll of about 1,000 people conducted over two weeks in July.

Democrats love him, to the tune of a 68% net approval rating — the share of people who view the pope favorably minus the share who view him unfavorably.

Republicans and independents do too, to a lesser but still large extent. The pope’s net-favorable rating among Republicans is 33 points; among independents, it is 39 points.

Leo, a Chicago native and the first American pope, was the only figure polled by Gallup to enjoy a positive net favorability rating among both Democrats, Republicans and independents.

His broad support places him widely ahead of other newsmakers mentioned in the survey from Gallup, one of the nation’s leading public opinion pollsters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has an 18-point net favorability rating, according to Gallup.

But his support among Republicans is underwater by 23 points. Sanders has an 11-point net favorability. But the progressive icon is reviled by Republicans and has a net favorability within the party of –57%.

All other figures whose favorability Gallup surveyed turned up with negative net approval ratings among American adults. None were more unpopular than President Donald Trump (–16%), Secretary of State Marco Rubio (–16%), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (–23%) and the billionaire and former leader of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk (–28%).

The pope’s 57% favorability rating among U.S. adults is roughly comparable to the American public’s views of the two most recent pontiffs — Benedict XVI and Francis — at the time of their elections.

When Benedict’s papacy began in 2005, a Gallup survey showed him with 55% favorability among U.S. adults. That dropped to 40% by 2010, polling showed.

Francis enjoyed a 58% favorability rating in 2013 when he was elected after Benedict’s resignation, according to Gallup. His favorability remained at that level a decade later, with a drop in support among American conservatives offset by growing support among liberals and moderates.

“Pope Leo has broad appeal in the U.S., setting him apart from public figures with clear party associations, whose images are often highly polarized,” Gallup’s pollsters concluded. “Although liked by all party groups, he gets better ratings from Democrats and liberals than Republicans and conservatives. Given the similarity to Francis’ image in his later years, this could indicate that Americans perceive Leo to be continuing Francis’ approach to religious and social questions, or that they are assuming that’s the case until shown otherwise.”