Karina Bovsunovska19:30, 09/20/24

According to Trump, he is behind Kamala Harris among American Jews.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that Jewish American voters will be partly to blame if he loses the November 5 election to the country’s vice president, Kamala Harris, who is the candidate of the Democratic Party, writes Reuters . 

The former US president, during comments at the National Summit of the Israel-American Council in Washington, complained that he lags behind Harris among American Jews. 

Trump pointed out that Israel would likely cease to exist within two years if Harris won the election, so Jews would be partly to blame for that outcome, since they tend to vote Democratic. 

“If I don’t win this election – and the Jewish people will really have a lot to do with it if that happens, because if 40%, I mean 60% of the people vote for the enemy – Israel, in my opinion, will cease to exist within two years,” Trump said in his address to the crowd.

In particular, Trump referred to a poll that he noted showed that Harris received 60% support among American Jews. He was also upset that in the 2016 election, which he won, and in the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Democratic President Joe Biden, he received less than 30% of the vote among American Jews. 

“It is not clear which poll the former president was referring to, but a recent Pew Research poll found that American Jews prefer Harris to Trump, 65% to 34%,” noted Reuters.

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