Donald Trump is very, very upset. He doesn’t understand why the vast majority of Jews in the United States don’t revere him or plan to vote for him in the November election. He has been generous to Jews—donating lots of money to Israel when he was president, supporting pro-Palestinian campus protests, Abrahamic covenants with several Arab countries, moving Israel’s capital to Jerusalem—but his magnanimity is not the same. He has not reciprocated with the gratitude it deserves. In a wild speech Thursday to the American Israel Council, he warned that if he loses the election, Jews “will have a lot to do with the loss.” “In the polls, I’m around 40 percent, which means Jews are going to vote for Kamala or a Democrat, and frankly, they should watch their faces,” he said.
Since the 1952 elections, the first in which the voting behavior of Jews in the United States was recorded, between 70 and 75 percent of them have voted for the Democratic Party, according to a recent analysis by the Israeli newspaper. Haaretz. So far, the highest support has been for Clinton in 1992 (80%) and Obama in 2008 (78%). The lowest vote to date was for Jimmy Carter (50%) in the 1980 election, won by Ronald Reagan, for whom 40% voted. Some studies claim that Jewish support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the four elections won by the Democrat between 1932 and 1944 reached 90%.
