Washington – The majority of American voters do not approve of President Donald Trump’s assertion that U.S. Jews who vote for the Democratic Party are disloyal, a poll found.
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The results of the national online survey of 1,987 registered voters showed a split along party lines.
Asked “Do you approve or disapprove of Trump’s statements about Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic Party either lacking knowledge or great disloyalty?,” 49 percent of respondents said they “strongly disapprove” and 10 percent “somewhat disapprove.” A combined 23 percent either “somewhat approve” or “strongly approve,” while 18 percent “don’t know/have no opinion.”
Most of the 619 Republicans surveyed backed the comments: 27 percent “strongly approve” and 24 percent “somewhat approve.” Only 12 percent said they “strongly disapprove” and 13 percent “somewhat disapprove.” The rest “don’t know/have no opinion.”
Likewise, most voters who approve of the job Trump is doing strongly (26 percent) or somewhat (24 percent) supported the comments.
Nearly none of the 768 Democrats surveyed approved of the comments: 81 percent said that they “strongly disapprove” and 5 percent “somewhat disapprove.”
Though cross-tabulations were not available for American Jews surveyed, the constituency overwhelmingly supports Democratic candidates.
Jewish groups widely condemned the comment made by the president in response to a question at an Aug. 19 news conference about Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., criticizing the Israeli government’s decision to bar them from entering the country.
Trump doubled down on the remarks the following day, saying the disloyalty was to Israel and the Jewish people.
The poll was conducted Aug. 23-25 by Morning Consult for Politico and the results were published Wednesday on Morning Consult. The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.
(JTA)
I am jewish and totally agree with the preside ts comments
An endorsement of Thomas Jefferson’s argument that we have nothing to fear from unbridled free speech…that in an open democratic system with a free flowing “market of ideas” the general public can be trusted in the end to reject what is evil and what is nonsense. IY”H, soon the general public will reject the Party that peddles what is evil and what is nonsense…and in such numbers that the electoral vote will match the results of the popular majority.
you are anti tromp but you are wrong for a lot of reasons he is against the left against the liberal garbage
and against anti religis gays mesigoim and he is for Israel most jews are against the democratic party
b ecause thei are anty religies for instance chock shumer is not realy a jew hecant be mcarev to a minyen if he toches wine we canyt drink it etc.
that’s because the media and the Ds are lying and claiming he was saying something anti Semitic when he wasn’t.
there is no Democratic party anymore – they are all SOCIALISTS or COMMUNISTS, so every Yid should vote for the REPUBLICAN ticket all the way – Remember a vote the other way is a vote against yourself
Yeah right, the only ones who disapproved are the same who thinks it’s wonderful that a frum woman sees Ilhan Omar y’s as a role model for hair coverings!
Just the people who have Trump derangement syndrome (hashomer and all his other screen names)
Dems wouldn’t approve if he said it was sunny outside.