{"id":2337436,"date":"2024-09-05T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-questions-jewish-support-for-harris-how-do-they-exist-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T17:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:22:29","slug":"trump-questions-jewish-support-for-harris-how-do-they-exist-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-questions-jewish-support-for-harris-how-do-they-exist-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump questions Jewish support for Harris: &#8216;How do they exist?&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-questions-jewish-support-for-harris-how-do-they-exist-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2337436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leading-palestinian-cleric-omicron-due-to-tolerance-of-homosexuality-deadly-bigotry\/\" title=\"Leading Palestinian Cleric: Omicron Due to Tolerance of Homosexuality \u2014 \u2018Deadly Bigotry\u2019\">recent address<\/a> to \u2062the Republican\u2064 Jewish Coalition&#8217;s Annual Leadership Summit, \u200bformer\u200c President Donald Trump questioned why he does not \u200chave greater support among Jewish\u2063 voters, despite his accomplishments regarding\u2063 Israel. He highlighted his past performance, where he received about 26%\u2064 of the Jewish vote after what he claims was significant support for Israel compared to \u2063other\u2063 presidents. Trump noted a slight improvement in New York polling, where he has gained \u2062a lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, moving from trailing Biden to leading \u2062Harris by a narrow margin. <\/p>\n<p>However, he expressed bewilderment over the Jewish individuals voting for candidates who he perceives as hostile to Israel, implying such choices are inexplicable. Trump \u200cattributed the \u200cchallenges Israel faces \u200cto the Biden administration, particularly under Harris, accusing them of weak responses to terrorism and claiming the recent \u200dviolence against Israel would not have\u2064 occurred during his presidency. He emphasized\u2063 that the ongoing conflicts, including the war\u200b in Gaza and international tensions, \u200dwould have been avoided under his leadership, urging Jewish\u2062 voters to reconsider their political\u2063 allegiances. The speech reflects Trump&#8217;s strategy to leverage \u2062discontent with the current administration to strengthen his \u2063appeal within the Jewish community.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump questions Jewish support for Harris: &lsquo;How do they exist?&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1748505\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>During a Thursday address to the Republican Jewish Coalition&rsquo;s Annual&nbsp;Leadership Summit, former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> pondered why his support is not higher among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3034906\/trump-gains-but-cant-win-majority-jewish-voters-biden-battles-party-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jewish voters\">Jewish voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>His rhetorical question to the crowd of Israel supporters came as he&rsquo;s attempted to capitalize on the dissatisfaction with the Biden administration&rsquo;s handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3141834\/gop-blame-harris-netanyahu-gaza-hostage-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"war in Gaza\">war in Gaza<\/a> to make inroads with Jewish voters he lost in 2020 by a roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/ap-polls-national.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>3:1 margin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has seen a slight gain with Jewish voters in New York now that he&rsquo;s up against Vice President Kamala Harris. He went from trailing former President Joe Biden at 52%-46% to leading Harris at 50%-49%.<\/p>\n<p>Trump still likely remains far behind nationally, although polling has been limited since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee. It was evident the tick upward in New York failed to please Trump, who offered a roughly 15-minute speech via live web call to the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We got 26% after four years after I did more for Israel than any other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president<\/a> by far, and this year, we&rsquo;re probably around the 50% mark,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I only ask you, who are the 50% of Jewish people that are voting for these people that hate Israel and don&rsquo;t like the Jewish people? Why are they voting? How do they exist?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to describe a dystopian end to Israel and that it will be &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-of-israeli-american-hostage-blames-biden-for-failure-to-secure-release\/\" title=\"Family of Israeli-American hostage blames Biden for failure to secure release\">abandoned&#038;rdquo<\/a>; if Harris is elected.<\/p>\n<p>Despite pressure and frustration from the far-left, Harris has resisted calls to withhold military support from Israel and take a more hard-line stance with the U.S. ally, but she has advocated a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also laid blame on the Biden administration, including Harris, for Hamas&rsquo;s Oct. 7 attack last year by being weak on Iran&rsquo;s terrorism funding and insisted he would not have allowed it to occur if he were still in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If Kamala Harris and Crooked Joe Biden are looking for another cause of this crisis, they should do nothing more than look in the mirror,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;They are the cause. They gave you no support. They gave Israel no support. The Oct. 7 attack on Israel would never have happened if I was president. Zero chance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also repeated claims that the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine would not have taken place under his watch. <\/p>\n<p>The Israel attack line has been a popular theme at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-big-tech-and-media-actions-to-steal-the-election-heres-whats-going-on-in-pennsylvania-and-michigan\/\" title=\"Democrat, Big Tech and Media Actions to Steal the Election \u2013 Here\u2019s What\u2019s Going on in Pennsylvania and Michigan\">year&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s Republican Jewish Coalition, which began Wednesday and runs through Friday in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Republican lawmakers and officials, including Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Steve Daines (R-MT), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), and RNC Chairman Michael Whatley, made similar accusations that Biden and Harris were to blame for the Gaza war or have played a prominent role in it dragging on for nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p>Some went a step further to suggest that Biden and Harris were at fault for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3140870\/what-we-know-6-israeli-hostages-found-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israeli hostages who were killed by Hamas<\/a>, even as Israeli protests target Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott, who&rsquo;s up for reelection this fall and seeking to become the next Senate GOP leader in the next Congress, implied the half-dozen hostages may still be alive if Biden had not previously urged Netanyahu to limit its military operations due to high civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Joe Biden and Kamala Harris threatened Netanyahu and withheld weapons to stop him from going into Rafah,&rdquo; Scott said in reference to the delay of certain bombs earlier this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-signed-40-executive-orders-and-actions-since-taking-office\/\" title=\"Biden has signed 40 executive orders and actions since taking office\">year amid<\/a> U.S. concern over civilians. &ldquo;Maybe if they hadn&rsquo;t impeded Israel&rsquo;s advance, these innocent lives would be alive today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1748505\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1748505\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition&#8217;s Annual Leadership Summit on Thursday, former President Donald Trump expressed confusion over why he doesn&#8217;t have more support from Jewish voters. He posed a rhetorical question to the audience of Israel supporters while trying to leverage discontent with the Biden administration&#8217;s approach to the Gaza conflict in order to win back Jewish voters he lost in 2020 by a significant margin. In New York, Trump has seen a slight increase in support among Jewish voters, now leading Vice President Kamala Harris 50%-49%, compared to trailing Joe Biden 52%-46%. However, he likely remains behind nationally, as polling has been limited since Harris became the Democratic nominee. <\/p>\n<p>Trump delivered about a 15-minute speech via live video call and remarked on his past achievements for Israel during his presidency. He questioned who the Jewish voters are that support politicians he claims dislike Israel and asked how they could exist. He warned of dire consequences for Israel if Harris were elected and criticized her for advocating only a ceasefire while resisting calls from far-left groups to cut military aid to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>He also blamed both Biden and Harris for Hamas\u2019s attack on October 7 last year due to their perceived weakness regarding Iran\u2019s funding of terrorism, asserting that such an attack would not have happened under his administration. Trump reiterated claims that other global crises like Afghanistan&#8217;s withdrawal and Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine would not have occurred if he were still president.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of blaming Biden and Harris for issues related to Israel was prevalent at this year&#8217;s Republican Jewish Coalition event in Las Vegas, where several prominent Republican figures echoed similar sentiments about their responsibility for ongoing conflicts in Gaza. Some even suggested that recent tragedies involving Israeli hostages could be linked back to actions taken by Biden and Harris regarding military operations against Hamas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2337437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-questions-support-jewish-voters.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40232,32438,32171,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2337436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-jewish-support","tag-kamala-harris","tag-political-commentary","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/trump-questions-support-jewish-voters.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}