Trump was so unpopular among American Jewish voters, even despite his constant pandering to Israel, that he received the lowest support any GOP candidate has received from the Jewish voting bloc in 24 years.
In the United States, at least, most Jewish people lean Democratic. Many of them do not support the Zionist agenda of Israel's right-wing government, including its war in Gaza, which has split the nation largely along partisan lines.
Democrats as a whole, by the way, think the U.S. too strongly supports Israel while Republicans overwhelmingly hold a support Israel at all costs viewpoint. As such, the overall Jewish vote for Trump was minimal, all things considered.
"In recent decades, between 20 and 30 percent of American Jews have supported Republicans in national elections," reported The Times of Israel. "The GOP hit a high-water mark in 1980 when Ronald Reagan won some 40% of Jewish votes, but the more typical split makes Jews among the most reliably Democratic demographics in the United States."
"But this year, with some Jews feeling alienated from the left and others all-in on the right due to Israel, some speculated that Trump could post an unusually strong showing among Jewish voters ... Initial polls suggest that is not the case."
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Jews divided on U.S. support for Israel
According to the National Election Pool, which produces exit polling for a consortium of major news outlets, 79 percent of Jewish voters cast their ballots for Kamala Harris while just 21 percent of Jewish voters selected Trump.
Voters were surveyed in 10 states as part of the research: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. Interestingly, voters in New York and California, the two U.S. states with this largest populations of Jews, were not sampled, though we know that most Jews in New York and California likewise vote Democrat.
We do not yet know the sample size or any further details about the polling, not to mention the fact that the votes in some states are still being counted. Even so, it is clear from the preliminary results that Jewish voters overwhelmingly lean left.
Some of the polling methodology has admittedly changed over the years, which could be skewing the results. There are also many more people vote by mail now ever since voting methods shifted dramatically due to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "pandemic."
Fox News, which tends to lean right, conducted its own Election Day "voter analysis" that found only about 67 percent of Jewish voters in the U.S. picked Kamala compared to 31 percent for Trump. In both cases, most Jews picked Kamala.
Compared to any other religious group, Jewish people in America voted for Kamala over Trump at the highest rate. In the Fox News poll, at least, Jews seem to be split on the issue of aid and support for Israel.
In the Fox poll, 56 percent of Trump voters, regardless of religious persuasion, indicated that they either strongly or somewhat support "continuing aid to Israel in the war against Hamas and Hezbollah," this compared to 58 percent of Kamala voters who are strongly or somewhat opposed to further Israel aid.
"Voters were evenly split among the categories, with Democrats making up 68% of those who said U.S. support for Israel was too strong and Republicans making up 81% of those who said it was not strong enough," The Times of Israel added.
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