You may be wrong on the political sense. He was after the democrats at their Denver convention repeatedly. I think the democrats even refused to have him pray at their convention. It’s on FR — look it up.
He criticized the democrats up one side and down the other.
Neither healthcare nor social justice (nor economic policy nor general aesthetics) qualifies as faith or morals. If the theology’s strong, that already weights the scale. Healthcare has no weight at all (which may be why so many American bishops & cardinals) weigh in on it!