While US President Joe Biden's campaign has regularly reached out to Jewish Democrats, his support among Jewish voters may be dwindling, CNN News suggested last week, attributing his declining popularity to the ongoing war against Hamas and the rise in US antisemitism. Biden's campaign, which makes a point to regularly host a "Jewish Women for Jew" Zoom call and plans to hire an interfaith director to engage Jewish voters better, was the subject of numerous complaints sent to CNN. The Jewish leaders charged that Biden had failed to do enough and expressed concerns that he could not control his own party. “Every effort to pander to [Palestinian American Congresswoman] Rashida Tlaib and those ‘Abandon Biden’ voters in Michigan has the risk of alienating Jewish voters in the Detroit suburbs.”Biden has condemned antisemitic incidents in the US, however many have argued that condemnations are not enough. Trump's support among Jewish voters reached a multi-decade record 30% for the Republican Party in 2020, an Associated Press poll found.

Source: CNN July 01, 2024 13:39 UTC