Jewish voters traditionally have been among the most fervent supporters of Democrat presidential candidates, but a new poll shows former President Donald Trump has a 9-point lead over Joe Biden among Jews in New York state, which has the nation’s largest Jewish population.
The poll by Siena College released Tuesday showed Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, with a 53%-44% lead over Biden among New York’s Jewish voters in a two-way race and a 46%-38% lead in a four-way race with independents Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West. The poll surveyed 806 registered voters in New York, 8% of whom were Jewish, from Feb. 12-14, and has a margin of error of okus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
The poll results are quite remarkable given Trump’s poor standing among Jewish voters nationwide in each of his presidential campaigns. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won 71% of the Jewish vote to Trump’s 24%, and in 2020, Biden won 68% to Trump’s 30% according to the Jewish Virtual Library, which showed the last time a Republican presidential candidate won the Jewish vote was Warren Harding in 1920.
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