In a crucial Democratic constituency in a blue state, former president Donald Trump has a commanding advantage against Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to Fox News, the former president has a little advantage over Jewish voters in New York, which is concerning for the vice president.
“Trump garnered the support of 50% of likely Jewish voters in New York, according to a Siena Research Institute poll released Tuesday, a slight lead over Vice President Harris, who garnered the selection of 49% of respondents,” the report said.
“While the lead for Trump is slim, it marks a dramatic change from the former president’s prospects against President Biden, who in June led Trump among likely Jewish voters, 52%-46%, in the state,” it said.
That might be the case because Harris was the first official in President Joe Biden’s administration to consistently call for a truce in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
“Israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters. What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating,” she said in July.
“The images of dead children and desperate hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent,” the Democrat nominee for president said.
“As I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done,” the vice president said.
“So to everyone who has been calling for a ceasefire, and to everyone who yearns for peace, I see you and I hear you,” she said.
And when anti-Israel demonstrators met her on Friday, she reiterated her commitment to a ceasefire.
“I have been clear: now is the time to get a ceasefire deal and get the hostage deal done,” she said.
However, Trump has shown a strong commitment to Israel.
“I think her remarks were disrespectful,” the former president said to CNN reporter Kristen Holmes of Harris’ comments when he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “They weren’t very nice pertaining to Israel. I actually don’t know how a person who is Jewish could vote for her, but that’s up to them.”
“She doesn’t like Jewish people. She doesn’t like Israel. That’s the way it is, and that’s the way it’s always gonna be,” he said.
In the prime minister’s meeting, he questioned why a Jewish American would support the Harris ticket.
“I said, ‘How can a Jewish person or a person that loves Israel vote, think of this, vote for this, these parties?’ How can they vote Democrat? How can they vote for these horrible, these horrible people?” he said.
“We came to the conclusion it’s mostly habit,” he said.
Good news for former President Donald Trump: a reliable website that analyzes polls revealed on Friday that he now leads Vice President Kamala Harris in the electoral college.
Trump is expected to receive 287 electoral votes, while Harris is expected to receive 251, according to average polling from many surveys released this week, as reported by RealClearPolitics president and co-founder Tom Bevan. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the president.
“Current RCP No-Toss Up Electoral map: Harris 251, Trump 287. Pennsylvania gets her to 270. Without it, she’d need to win two more states – one of which would have to be GA or NC. Winning AZ+NV would leave her at 268,” Bevan wrote on X, along with a U.S. map graphic showing the breakdown.
Note that according to RCP’s polling average, Trump defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 and defeated Republican nominee Joe Biden in 2020. The margins projected by the website were within the percentages that both candidates won at the time.
