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LAS VEGAS, NV – Former President Trump instructed that he may win as much as half of the Jewish vote within the 2024 election as he criticized Jewish Individuals who do not assist him in his showdown with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We’re in all probability across the 50 % mark,” Trump mentioned on Thursday in live-streamed feedback as he addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual management assembly in Las Vegas, Nevada.
And the previous president and GOP nominee claimed, with out proof, that Israel “will now not exist” if Harris wins the White Home in November’s election.
Trump addressed the group of Republican Jewish leaders, donors, and activists, days after the our bodies of six Israeli hostages, together with Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, have been recovered in Gaza. The hostages have been taken by Hamas final October throughout an assault on Israel that ignited the eleven-month-long battle in Gaza.
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Former President Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, provides live-streamed feedback to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual management assembly, in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sept. 5, 2024 (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
The Harris marketing campaign, responding to Trump’s tackle, pointed to the previous president’s previous criticism of Israeli chief Benjamin Netanyahu for congratulating Biden on his 2020 election victory over Trump.
“Donald Trump has made it apparent he would activate Israel in a second if it suited his private pursuits, and in reality he has executed so previously,” Harris nationwide safety spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein wrote in a press release. “In the meantime, the Vice President has been extremely clear: She has been a lifelong supporter of the State of Israel as a safe, democratic homeland for the Jewish individuals.”
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Whereas supportive of Israel’s proper to defend itself, President Biden’s relationship with Netanyahu has grown more and more strained throughout the present battle. On Monday, the president mentioned he did not suppose the Israeli chief was doing sufficient to assist foster a hostage cope with Hamas.
The vice chairman has aimed to steadiness her assist for Israel – which she spotlighted final month throughout her tackle on the Democratic Nationwide Conference – along with her acknowledgment of the excessive civilian demise toll attributable to Israel’s army offensive in Gaza. Whereas Republicans are unified in assist of Israel, many progressives within the Democratic Occasion have been vocal of their criticism of Israel’s battle with Hamas.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks onstage throughout the first day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Middle on August 19, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photos)
Trump, who has repeatedly questioned how Jewish Individuals may vote for the Democrats, reiterated “I don’t perceive how anyone can assist them — and I say it continuously — for those who had them to assist and also you have been Jewish, it’s a must to have your head examined.”
“Who’re the 50 % of Jewish individuals which might be voting for these those that hate Israel and don’t just like the Jewish individuals?” Trump requested as he as soon as once more charged that the Democrats “have been very unhealthy to you.”
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Ari Fleischer, a Republican Jewish Coalition board member, spotlighted the rising Jewish assist for GOP presidential candidates as he spoke with reporters following Trump’s speech.
Fleischer, a longtime Republican strategist, former White Home press secretary and Fox Information contributor, mentioned that former President George H.W. Bush gained 11% of the Jewish vote in 1992, however that his boss, former President George W. Bush, gained 25% of the Jewish vote in his 2004 re-election. Trump gained roughly 30% of the Jewish vote 4 years in the past.
GOP presidential nominee former President Trump, takes intention at Vice President Kamala Harris as he speaks in a livestreamed tackle to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual management assembly, on Sept. 5, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
Fleischer wouldn’t predict what share of the Jewish vote Trump would seize this yr, however mentioned it may close to 50% in some battleground states, as they think about casting Republican ballots.
“The ears of the Jewish group are open this cycle greater than beforehand, due to the occasions around the globe and what we see in America,” Fleischer mentioned. “It is one factor for it to be theoretical, it is now bodily. It is palpable on the American avenue.”
He added that “what’s modified on this cycle is that this palpable sense of concern due to what’s taking place in America, due to what’s taking place on campuses, due to what occurred in Israel on October 7, and each day since…the American Jewry has by no means had their ears extra open to doubtlessly voting Republican than on this cycle.”
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Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks advised reporters that the group’s political arm has beefed up its information operations by constructing what he touted as “the one actual viable voter file of Jewish voters within the nation” to turnout the vote.
“We now have quietly been constructing below the radar during the last a number of years. We now have been placing employees and deploying sources,” Brooks shared. “So we now have employees in Nevada, we’ve got paid employees in Georgia, we’ve got paid employees in Michigan, we’ve got paid employees in Pennsylvania and in Arizona. And we’ve got been doing this quietly because the final election, constructing as much as this second.”
Brooks mentioned the group is spending thousands and thousands of {dollars} on digital and TV advertisements, unsolicited mail, cellphone calls and door knocking and different canvassing efforts to get out the vote – what he described as “the entire gamut.”
Miriam Adelson, the billionaire GOP donor, speaks on the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual management assembly, in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sept. 5, 2024. (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
Trump was launched on the gathering by Miriam Adelson, the billionaire on line casino magnate and Republican megadonor, who together with late husband Sheldon have been main backers of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Adelson, who’s presently serving to bankroll a brilliant PAC that helps Trump, referred to as him “our greatest pal” and added that she’s “eagerly awaiting for him to enter the White Home and to save lots of the Jewish individuals.”
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Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based mostly in New Hampshire.
