Many people are insisting that only 21 percent of U.S. Jews voted for Donald Trump and the Republicans. I dove into the data and realized that they are deliberately misleading us.
My gut told me that much more than 21% of US Jews voted for Trump. We are an argumentative, often foolish people but we are not suicidal enough to remain blind to the 1930s-style anti-Semitism the Democrats now support.
I'm sorry to see the Jewish vote didn't even amount to 50%. Only 32%. Apparently most American Jews ARE suicidal and hopefully they - not the Trump-voters - will end up as 80% of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt did. In oblivion with their Egyptian masters. In fact Moses led only 20% of all the Hebrew slaves to freedom - and to receive the religion at Mount Sinai that built Western civilization.
But if indeed it went from high 70s percentage support for Dems down to mid 60s - and that seems most likely (I have seen numbers all the way from basically no change, to as high as 40%+ voted for Trump in swing states) - that’s actually pretty good progress.
You have a point. American Jews have been voting Democrat since Roosevelt, the president who never liked Jews much and DIDN'T save the European ones from the Holocaust. I guess their lemming-like brains haven't yet learned there is no payoff in following each other off the cliff. I have never been a follower of any party. I support Trump because he's the lesser of two evils and may encourage much-needed changes in America and the world. But I'm a political independent. And to me, the Dem party is an enemy to civilization. It's a pack of power-hungry Jihadis, Marxists and Nihilists who come across like Taylor Swift, Whoopi Goldberg and Chuck Schumer.
Thank you for pointing out the lies the Legacy Media tries to push down on us. That may have worked in the past, but those games are over because this election has shown people the bias and lying that goes on. As an Jewish Independent voter who voted for Trump, I am still dismayed at why people must whisper or be fearful of saying out loud what is their right as Americans. If we have to whisper, then they've won because they've been successful at creating an atmosphere of fear and censoring of our voices. When a friend of mine asked me what I thought about Trump's win, I simply said let's wait and see what he does. It won't be what the media is trying to force on us. She agreed. In The Forward, which I only read, to get to hear some of the outrageous things said about Israel, Hamas, etc. A rabbi wrote an article recently saying how Trump won by a slim margin, another Forward article, "Why Jewish Voters Went Against Trump," and in Haaretz, "Jewish Voters Strongly Favored Harris"(I said Trump, and sorry, this was a gross error) If only more people did what you did in your essay, actually researching factual information that you put together logically, or at the very least reading articles with a variety of viewpoints. When readers keep reading articles in Haaretz or The Forward only, there's little else for them to believe. Thank you for taking the time to do that. Hopefully, you have reached some who believe otherwise.
Excellent essay! I've repeatedly commented on varioius substacks and to editors at Forward magazine that the 21% figure was as nonsensical as Seltzer's poll before the election showing Biden ahead of Trump in Iowa by about 7 points. Best indication of voting patterns was to look at actual vote tallies in largely Jewish places. All came out surprisingly strong for Trump. Orthodox Jews don't hide their support Trump, but many Reform Jews do because of the hysterical peer pressure and disgust they face from Democrat only advocates who can't tolerate a different opinion. I was openly for Trump because opinion of others mean nothing to me, but many of my Reform Jewish friends approached me privately and confided they intended to vote for Trump though couldn't be public about it. Some were upset this would upset their wives. I told them their wives would probably also secretly vote for Trump. In my town which has many Reform Jews, the vote tally sheets left at the voting machine sites showed Trump getting more than 50% of the vote. In Orthodox areas, it was higher.
The same researchers who claim that Trump got only 21% of the Jewish vote are also the same researchers whose research is either ignorant of of deliberately marginalizes and minimizes the Orthodox community and its growth and conservative views on Israel and American politics .It is no small secret that the Orthodox communities for whom support of Israel is a prime concern along with the tolerance of s as to Semitism in the streets and universities of the US voted in large numbers for Trump
Liberal-left "Jewish" orgs like J-Street et al are more dangerous to us than islamic terrorists. I often worry that Republicans will stop supporting Israel because of them.
I agree! How many polls predicted the result would be on a knife edge. What nonsense, it was a landslide. The predictions of these polls are getting worse and worse. I have a suspicion that they are manipulated.
Evidence is emerging of deliberate poll-result manipulation to skew public perceptions. The polls weren't "mistaken" they were deliberately curated to hide Trump was ahead.
Check this:
Disney bought 538 (polling aggregator org)
Placed it under Dana Walden’s (head of TV) management
Walden is a close friend of Kamala Harris!
She replaced previously accurate Nate Silver’s staff with G Elliot Morris’
He gutted 538’s algorithm to kick out neutral sources and bias results to the Democrats
I voted for Kamala, not because I like her (although I tend to be center left), but because if she didn't do well for the U.S. and Israel we could vote her out in four years. Not so sure when it comes to Trump. That was it. Nothing to do with religion one way or the other; lots to do with democracy.
Trump is totally unfit to be president. For Jews that don’t see that, why do you even bother to pretend you are a Jew? Does any Jew want their son or daughter to grow up and be like Donald Trump? Where are your Jewish values? Trump has one value money and he’s a ganif too.
Biden, Harris and the Democrats are all but cuddling up to the Palestinians in their bit for Muslim votes and have tried to limit Israel’s war fighting since October 7. Trump’s daughter and son-in-law are both Jewish and he is a staunch supporter of Israel. It’s no surprise that it’s secular Jews who are firm Democrats.
The image of Trump standing at the Rebbe's grave with a kippah does not mean anything. For Trump, every action is a sound bite or a photo opportunity. Make no mistake. I hope h e continue to support Israel, but the same man broke bread with Kanye and Nick Fuentes and courts Putin (who is quite anti-Israel). Most important, Trump has no ideology. It's all about whatever strokes his ego and his wallet.
"Nearly half of Jews voted Republican in this presidential election, a historic number." And you are getting this statistics from what? A gut feeling? A couple of your friends whispering to you at gatherings that they are voting for him? "The Vibes" are not a valid mathematical for statistics. Also Trumps must resent AG pick was a registered lobbyist for Qatar so he truly he's a friend to Israel.
My gut told me that much more than 21% of US Jews voted for Trump. We are an argumentative, often foolish people but we are not suicidal enough to remain blind to the 1930s-style anti-Semitism the Democrats now support.
https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2024/general-results/voter-analysis
In fact more than 21% of Jews did vote against the Democrats this year.
sadly much of my family and liberal Jewish friends have buried their heads in the sands.
“First they came for the trade unionists…”
I'm sorry to see the Jewish vote didn't even amount to 50%. Only 32%. Apparently most American Jews ARE suicidal and hopefully they - not the Trump-voters - will end up as 80% of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt did. In oblivion with their Egyptian masters. In fact Moses led only 20% of all the Hebrew slaves to freedom - and to receive the religion at Mount Sinai that built Western civilization.
It will take time, unfortunately.
But if indeed it went from high 70s percentage support for Dems down to mid 60s - and that seems most likely (I have seen numbers all the way from basically no change, to as high as 40%+ voted for Trump in swing states) - that’s actually pretty good progress.
You have a point. American Jews have been voting Democrat since Roosevelt, the president who never liked Jews much and DIDN'T save the European ones from the Holocaust. I guess their lemming-like brains haven't yet learned there is no payoff in following each other off the cliff. I have never been a follower of any party. I support Trump because he's the lesser of two evils and may encourage much-needed changes in America and the world. But I'm a political independent. And to me, the Dem party is an enemy to civilization. It's a pack of power-hungry Jihadis, Marxists and Nihilists who come across like Taylor Swift, Whoopi Goldberg and Chuck Schumer.
Hey, hey, slow down.
Other than her politics, I like Taylor Swift… 😏
Thank you for pointing out the lies the Legacy Media tries to push down on us. That may have worked in the past, but those games are over because this election has shown people the bias and lying that goes on. As an Jewish Independent voter who voted for Trump, I am still dismayed at why people must whisper or be fearful of saying out loud what is their right as Americans. If we have to whisper, then they've won because they've been successful at creating an atmosphere of fear and censoring of our voices. When a friend of mine asked me what I thought about Trump's win, I simply said let's wait and see what he does. It won't be what the media is trying to force on us. She agreed. In The Forward, which I only read, to get to hear some of the outrageous things said about Israel, Hamas, etc. A rabbi wrote an article recently saying how Trump won by a slim margin, another Forward article, "Why Jewish Voters Went Against Trump," and in Haaretz, "Jewish Voters Strongly Favored Harris"(I said Trump, and sorry, this was a gross error) If only more people did what you did in your essay, actually researching factual information that you put together logically, or at the very least reading articles with a variety of viewpoints. When readers keep reading articles in Haaretz or The Forward only, there's little else for them to believe. Thank you for taking the time to do that. Hopefully, you have reached some who believe otherwise.
Excellent essay! I've repeatedly commented on varioius substacks and to editors at Forward magazine that the 21% figure was as nonsensical as Seltzer's poll before the election showing Biden ahead of Trump in Iowa by about 7 points. Best indication of voting patterns was to look at actual vote tallies in largely Jewish places. All came out surprisingly strong for Trump. Orthodox Jews don't hide their support Trump, but many Reform Jews do because of the hysterical peer pressure and disgust they face from Democrat only advocates who can't tolerate a different opinion. I was openly for Trump because opinion of others mean nothing to me, but many of my Reform Jewish friends approached me privately and confided they intended to vote for Trump though couldn't be public about it. Some were upset this would upset their wives. I told them their wives would probably also secretly vote for Trump. In my town which has many Reform Jews, the vote tally sheets left at the voting machine sites showed Trump getting more than 50% of the vote. In Orthodox areas, it was higher.
The same researchers who claim that Trump got only 21% of the Jewish vote are also the same researchers whose research is either ignorant of of deliberately marginalizes and minimizes the Orthodox community and its growth and conservative views on Israel and American politics .It is no small secret that the Orthodox communities for whom support of Israel is a prime concern along with the tolerance of s as to Semitism in the streets and universities of the US voted in large numbers for Trump
Liberal-left "Jewish" orgs like J-Street et al are more dangerous to us than islamic terrorists. I often worry that Republicans will stop supporting Israel because of them.
I agree! How many polls predicted the result would be on a knife edge. What nonsense, it was a landslide. The predictions of these polls are getting worse and worse. I have a suspicion that they are manipulated.
There is far more to this story...
Evidence is emerging of deliberate poll-result manipulation to skew public perceptions. The polls weren't "mistaken" they were deliberately curated to hide Trump was ahead.
Check this:
Disney bought 538 (polling aggregator org)
Placed it under Dana Walden’s (head of TV) management
Walden is a close friend of Kamala Harris!
She replaced previously accurate Nate Silver’s staff with G Elliot Morris’
He gutted 538’s algorithm to kick out neutral sources and bias results to the Democrats
Cue to 25:30 in the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCbysPVIby0
And many others...
https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-how-americas
https://www.racket.news/p/how-americas-accurate-election-polls
It comes back to why the majority of Jews vote socialist/left/liberal. Because 90% are either atheist & or secular.🤨
I voted for Kamala, not because I like her (although I tend to be center left), but because if she didn't do well for the U.S. and Israel we could vote her out in four years. Not so sure when it comes to Trump. That was it. Nothing to do with religion one way or the other; lots to do with democracy.
Trump was voted out in 2020 what makes you think you couldn’t do it in 2028?
He tried to weasel his way back in on jan 6. It was a pitiful attempt, but the same mistakes won’t be made next time.
You certainly bought the Leftist MSM’s propaganda
See reply above
Trump is totally unfit to be president. For Jews that don’t see that, why do you even bother to pretend you are a Jew? Does any Jew want their son or daughter to grow up and be like Donald Trump? Where are your Jewish values? Trump has one value money and he’s a ganif too.
Complete nonsense.
Biden, Harris and the Democrats are all but cuddling up to the Palestinians in their bit for Muslim votes and have tried to limit Israel’s war fighting since October 7. Trump’s daughter and son-in-law are both Jewish and he is a staunch supporter of Israel. It’s no surprise that it’s secular Jews who are firm Democrats.
A vote for Harris was a vote against Israel 💯💯. I will never vote Demoncrat again.
The image of Trump standing at the Rebbe's grave with a kippah does not mean anything. For Trump, every action is a sound bite or a photo opportunity. Make no mistake. I hope h e continue to support Israel, but the same man broke bread with Kanye and Nick Fuentes and courts Putin (who is quite anti-Israel). Most important, Trump has no ideology. It's all about whatever strokes his ego and his wallet.
"Nearly half of Jews voted Republican in this presidential election, a historic number." And you are getting this statistics from what? A gut feeling? A couple of your friends whispering to you at gatherings that they are voting for him? "The Vibes" are not a valid mathematical for statistics. Also Trumps must resent AG pick was a registered lobbyist for Qatar so he truly he's a friend to Israel.
I'd be curious to hear an organization like J-street's response to your essay.
Looks like you’ve never been to a RJC event.