A new poll conducted by Richard Baris has found that US Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, holds a narrow lead over former US President Donald Trump among Jewish voters in the 2024 presidential election, leading him by a margin of 52.7% to 45.9%.
However, the poll also indicates a softening of support for Democrats among Jewish voters, likely due to dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Jewish voters have traditionally leaned Democratic, with an average margin of 71% to 26% since 1968.
Pollster Richard Baris notes that Jewish voters “don’t trust Kamala Harris as much” as they trusted Joe Biden, and suggests that the Biden administration’s “anti-Israel policies” may be driving a partial exodus of Jewish voters to the Republican Party.
Harris is expected to take an even more adversarial approach to Israel than Biden, and has faced criticism for her handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Trump, on the other hand, has won support from a large number Jewish voters for his pro-Israel policies during his presidency.
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The Democrats have yet to pick their ticket or approve a platform. If the Democrats soundly denounce anti-Semitism (in effect telling their own left wing to take a long walk on a short pier) and denounce Hamas and their Iranian backers as war criminals, and especially if they pick Joshua Shapiro of Pennsylvania for Vice-President, then Trump will have a problem with getting Jewish votes. If Trump is going with “America First” that means he won’t be able to opposed foreign aggression unless directed at the United States (so bye bye Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and probably a good many other countries allied with the USA) – though Trump could say that all he intended was to induce allies to spend more on defense and of course the US will stand by allies.
Of course, if the Democrats criticize Israel for defending itself (which goes against Biden’s inclinations, but he’s “out”), and nominate a “Progressive” for Vice-President, it is likely that Jews will go back to being Republicans (which most were in the late 19th century), as will many other moderate Democrats, which will seriously disrupt the American political system (not that we have the numbers or influence to change the system, but in many ways we will be the canary in the coal mining indicated the political earthquake).
Unfortunately she still holds a lead..
It’s unfortunate that so many Jews are not frum… I can only imagine if there were more fium Jews out there how much more support Donald Trump would have
Trump still has to figure out how to rationalize “America First” with America ready to go to war with Iran to protect Israel.
Harris still has time to denounce Hamas and its supporters, pick a Vice-President who annoys the pro-Hamas crowd.
Wait a few week and watch.