Published: 10 September 2024
Last updated: 10 September 2024
(JTA) — American Jews plan to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris by a wide margin, according to a new survey by a Jewish Democratic group.
The survey also found that 87% of American Jewish voters support the Biden administration’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war that would release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
The survey, released Monday by the Jewish Democratic Council of America, shows 68% of Jewish voters planning to vote for Harris, the Democratic nominee, and 25% planning to vote for Donald Trump, the former president and Republican nominee.
The survey indicates that a volatile season of campaigning, including heated exchanges over which party is worse for American Jews, has hardly budged the Jewish electorate. It also suggests that extensive Republican efforts to draw greater numbers of Jewish voters after Oct. 7 have not significantly moved the needle.
The survey shows Jewish voters favoring the Democratic candidate in slightly greater numbers than they did in April, when President Joe Biden was the presumptive nominee. That poll, conducted by the JDCA-affiliated Jewish Electorate Institute, working with the same company, GBAO, showed Biden besting Trump 64%-24% among Jewish voters. Harris’ 4% advantage over Biden is barely outside the 3.5 percentage-point margin of error for both polls.
The survey found that Israel ranked ninth when respondents were presented with a number of issues and asked to pick their top two
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Rachel Sussman10 September at 10:33 am
I have an American family and from my experience with them they will never vote anything else but Democrat, no matter what.
Personally, I find this approach to our voting privilege not only sad and blind but also somewhat irresponsible. I would never ever vote for any party just because it is my generally preferred Political Party. I always way all the issues and decide accordingly. Being a ‘swinging voter’ to my view is the only responsible way to vote… but this is me.
I am afraid that voting through ‘blind loyalty’ will come to bite American Jews back and sadly, it will also impact on Israel, world Jewry, and indeed the entire world since the political scene in the USA is crucial for the free world… Well, time will tell