Despite rhetoric and a track record that suggests a strong preference for Israel over the Palestinian cause, President-elect Donald Trump has lost more Jewish votes than he has lost Muslim votes.
According to Fox News Voter Analysis, there was a 34-point lead between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris among Jewish voters. Harris received support 66% to 32%.
Jewish voters only narrowly swung toward Trump, even as Republicans tried to portray Democrats as contradictory toward Israel. In 2020, 69% voted for President Biden and 30% voted for President Trump.
Muslim voters supported Harris by 32 points. Mr. Trump received 32% of the vote and Ms. Harris received 63%. In 2020, Biden won 64% of the Muslim vote to Trump's 35%.
Mr. Trump won a majority of votes among evangelical Christians, Catholics, and Mormons.
Some Democrats were concerned that third-party candidate Jill Stein could steal votes from Harris from Muslims and people unhappy with Biden's Middle East policy. Four percent of Muslims voted for third-party candidates.
Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump. (AP image)
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As Israel's war against Hamas drags on in Gaza and spills over into Lebanon, Ms. Harris tried to walk a tightrope between the two sides throughout her campaign.
She refused to draw a distinction from Biden's Middle East policy and stressed that she would defend Israel's right to defend itself.
Harris has called for a ceasefire for months and refused to host Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress in April.
“This moment gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza,” Harris said last month when Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Anti-Israel demonstrators protest in support of Palestinians killed in Gaza outside the Arab American National Museum on August 11, 2024 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
“The war must end so that Israel's security is ensured, the hostages are freed, the suffering in the Gaza Strip ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination,” he said. said.
“It's time for the day after tomorrow to begin,” she said.
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The Biden team threatened to withhold military aid in October if Israel did not allow more food aid to the Gaza Strip, but as the war surpassed a year last month, almost no arms package was delivered to Israel. Continued.
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In May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Biden administration of moving slowly to bring in 2,000-pound bombs over concerns about their destructive potential. “One of the things we've done that I fully support is the moratorium on dropping 2,000-pound bombs,” Harris told the National Black Journalist in September. He spoke at the association.
Anti-Israel demonstrators chant loudly as people gather to watch Vice President Kamala Harris speak on a screen at the Ellipse, just south of the White House, on October 29, 2024, in Washington, DC. A scene of waving the Palestinian flag. (Falahi Island/AFP via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the Trump team sought to capitalize on Arab Americans' disillusionment with the Biden administration.
“We have to end all of this,” President Trump said last week in Dearborn, Michigan, referring to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. “We want peace. We want peace on earth.”
Meanwhile, President Trump said Jewish Americans not voting for him “shows either a total lack of knowledge or great dishonesty.”
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During his first term, Trump moved the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and helped broker a peace deal between Israel and four Arab countries.
His campaign frequently suggested that Harris supported the Palestinian cause more than the Israelis.
But in April, Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt that “Israel is completely losing the PR war,” criticizing leaked footage of the ruins of Gaza.
“We have to end this, we have to get back to normal, and I don't know if I like the way they're doing it, because we have to win,” Trump said. He did not directly answer whether he was 100 percent on Israel's side.
