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In New York State, Jews have the highest favorable opinion of President Trump. Jews support Trump more than any other religious group, more than Catholics and Protestants, upstate voters, and more than white voters in general.
Jews are the only identity group in the state with whom Trump isn’t underwater even at the same time as Sen. Schumer polls worse among Jews than among Catholics or Protestants.
(So when Trump taunts Schumer as a ‘Palestinian’, he knows what he’s doing.)
At 61%, Jews provide the highest rate of approval for Trump’s deportation of migrants compared to 42% among protestants, 49% among Catholics and 48% among white voters.
Jews in New York have a total 57% approval rating for Trump in contrast to 38% among Protestants, 49% among Catholics and 47% among white voters, and the highest levels of support for Trump’s immigration, inflation, trade and conviction that Trump will make America great (51% Jews, 42% Catholics and 28% Protestants.)
Unsurprisingly, 64% of New York Jews support President Trump’s approach to Iran.
The Siena College poll numbers reflect an ongoing trend of Jewish support for Trump that defies the fake polls advanced by Democrat front groups (previously exposed by Freedom Center Investigates) which generate the 70% plus numbers often quoted by the media and the gullible to falsely claim nearly universal Jewish support for Obama, Biden and Kamala.
While some people would claim that these numbers are inadequate (and would complain that any numbers short of 101% are not good enough), they are all the more remarkable for coming out of one of the more liberal states in the country and even more so when you consider that much of New York’s Jewish population lives in New York City which leans so far leftward that it’s on the verge of electing a Muslim Communist and regularly generates anti-Trump protest mobs.
New York Jews are defying the trend in a state poll that shows 60% of the state has an unfavorable view of Trump and a poll rigged with slanted negative questions asking about the detention of elected officials over ICE protests, keeping the SALT cap in place, “cutting taxes for corporations” and cutting food stamps for “poor people” in a calculated effort to elicit negative responses. Despite that, Jews were the only group to continue standing by President Trump.
“Jews earn like Episcopalians, and vote like Puerto Ricans” was an old political jab. But if the rest of New York voted the way its Jewish population does, Trump would have won the state.
And it doesn’t end with Trump.
Support for President Trump doesn’t necessarily translate into support for Republicans at the local level, but that’s something that New York’s moribund GOP can choose to tackle.
While the next gubernatorial election is still in the wind and most of the candidates are unknown, a majority of New York’s Jewish voters would back Republican Mike Lawler over Gov. Kathy Hochul, the current unpopular Democrat in office, and back some conservative policies.
(The Siena polls also show that social media isn’t real life and that much of the Jewish population remains unaware of the pro-Israel positions of Rep. Elise Stefanik or Rep. Ritchie Torres and don’t even know who they are. The Twitter effect is extremely overrated.)
Contrary to popular belief, the Jewish vote is winnable. President Trump is proving it.
Trump’s secret was competing for voters, black, Jewish or Latino, whom most GOPers had written off, and especially targeting working class and minority male voters.
While the perception of New York Jews is somewhere between Jerry Seinfeld and a Park Avenue cardiologist, much of the population is actually religious, traditional and working class, is far more likely to live in Brooklyn than Manhattan and among Orthodox Jews is concerned about many of the same issues as conservative Christians are, not only Israel, but religious values, immigration control and national greatness.
New York’s demographics make it unlikely that a Republican presidential candidate will win New York outright, but courting the Jewish population and other ‘winnable’ groups can boost the size of the state’s Republican congressional delegation and make a difference at the state level.
Even while people mindlessly repeat the same lies about 70% of Jews supporting Democrats, New York Republicans got their best numbers in a gubernatorial race since the 90s with a Jewish candidate. And President Trump is getting his best numbers in the state from its Jewish population even while Sen. Schumer is underwater among his own community.
New York Jews are no longer earning like Episcopalians and voting like Puerto Ricans. They’re moving to the right while the Episcopalians are moving leftward. Schumer can grit his teeth, Randi Weingarten can curse Jews as part of the “ownership class” and Democrat groups can spread their fake polls under front groups, but they are losing New York’s Jewish population.
It’s gotten so bad that the only one they could find to head Jews for Zohran was the niece of a Sri Lankan Marxist operating out of China. It would have been impossible to imagine a generation ago, but today, New York’s Jews stand with Trump.