I think Donald Trump will win a higher percentage of the Jewish vote of any Republican presidential candidate in a century. Jewish Journal of Los Angeles Editor Rob Eshman thinks Republican Jews will dump Donald Trump (whatever that means, vote for Hillary?). <\/p>\n
I love seeing how out of touch with reality these media elites are. <\/p>\n
Most Orthodox Jews who vote will vote for Trump in November. In the comments section on his essay, Eshman predicts American Jews will vote 90-10 against Trump in November. I predict Trump will get more than 35% of the Jewish vote. <\/p>\n
Rob Eshman writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n Donald Trump will set the cause of Republican Jews back 75 years. I think Donald Trump will win a higher percentage of the Jewish vote of any Republican presidential candidate in a century. Jewish Journal of Los Angeles Editor Rob Eshman thinks Republican Jews will dump Donald Trump (whatever that means, vote … Continue reading
\nThat\u2019s why the leading voice of Republican Jews seems to have all but abandoned the leading contender for the Republican nomination.
\nTrump\u2019s bellicose takeover of the GOP has been met with a complete and telling silence from the Republican Jewish Coalition, the largest and most active group of Republican Jews.
\nTrump is not mentioned on the group\u2019s website. He and his surrogates are not listed on its calendar of events. He is not even pictured on the group\u2019s homepage. You know who is? Sen. Marco Rubio, Gov. Chris Christie and Gov. Scott Walker. Two of those three men have already dropped out of the race. The leading contender for the Republican nomination? Nowhere to be found.
\nRJC Executive Director Matt Brooks did not respond to my interview requests about Trump. Republican pollster and consultant Frank Luntz answered an email about whether Republican Jews will throw their support behind Trump with an uncharacteristically terse, \u201cI have no idea.\u201d
\nThen, on March 1, Dan Senor, the co-author of the seminal book \u201cStart-up Nation\u201d who served as senior foreign policy adviser to the Mitt Romney campaign, announced he would not support Trump.
\n\u201cI am not voting for Donald Trump,\u201d Senor told Bloomberg News. \u201cI am not voting for him in the primary, and I am not voting for him in the general.\u201d
\nFolks, this is big.
\nYes, there are assorted Jewish Americans who like Trump and will vote for him, even work for him \u2014 and I have received spiteful emails from all three of them.
\nBut for now, it looks like Trump will set a record for garnering the lowest Republican Jewish vote in 75 years. In 1940, Wendell Willkie received just 10 percent of the Jewish vote in his run against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Trump could do worse.
\nOf course, he could still win \u2014 maybe Hillary or Bernie stumble so badly Trump looks like John F. Kennedy. But history shows that a large Jewish vote, while it doesn\u2019t guarantee a win, inoculates a GOP candidate against loss.
\n\u201cThe last losing GOP candidate to get more than 30 percent of the Jewish vote was Charles Evans Hughes, in 1916,\u201d Jewish Journal Senior Political Editor Shmuel Rosner points out in his book, \u201cThe Jewish Vote: Obama vs. Romney, A Jewish Voters Guide.\u201d
\n\u201cSo you see, there\u2019s a good reason \u2026 to invest in the Jewish vote \u2026 it is almost like getting insurance policy against losing.\u201d
\nTrump has taken out no such policy. He has reversed whatever progress Republicans have made in winning over more Jewish voters. He has alienated Republican Jews looking for any reason to get behind him.
\nThe first breach occurred last December, when Trump appeared at a high-level RJC event in Washington, D.C .
\nAccording to a report by Jewish Insider, Trump told the well-heeled donor crowd, \u201cI know why you are not going to support me. You\u2019re not going to support me because I don\u2019t want your money. You want to control your own politicians.\u201d
\nDuring the Q-and-A, Trump lifted his other middle finger to the conservative Jewish establishment, saying he wouldn\u2019t commit to the idea of an undivided Jerusalem. The audience booed.
\nLast month, Trump declared he would be \u201cneutral\u201d about the Israelis and Palestinians, another taboo idea among Republicans, who proclaim unswerving loyalty to the current Israeli government. In response, Trump\u2019s primary opponents condemned the idea of neutrality in the last Republican presidential debate.
\nAnd over the past two weeks, Trump has equivocated on whether he would disavow the losers\u2019 row of anti-Semitic groups and individuals who have come out in support of his candidacy. Last week, I wrote that Trump has a white supremacist problem. A week later, the problem has reached Zika proportions.
\nBut Trump has yet to back down. Not on calling the Republican Jewish establishment rich puppet masters. Not on BS-ing his way through Middle East politics, not on quoting Mussolini or retweeting anti-Semites.
\nIn effect, Trump has been saying, \u201cScrew you\u201d to the largest base of organized, loyal Jewish Republicans in American history.
\nAnd, as of now, it looks like they are poised to say it right back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"