Jews Turned Out for Trump in 2024 in Unprecedented Numbers

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Republican Jews hailed findings from the Pew Research Center affirming that Jewish voters played a significant role in U.S. President Donald Trump's varied coalition that carried him to victory in the 2024 presidential election.

The findings from Pew, widely considered among the gold standards of polling centers, come amid a months-long battle between Democratic and Republican Jewish groups that have attempted to promote data affirming their respective arguments.

For the GOP, the argument has centered around the belief that the Jewish electorate was shifting in rapid numbers away from the historically familiar support for Democratic candidates, primarily motivated by Democrats' alleged failure to adequately support Israel and combat antisemitism.

Democrats, meanwhile, have argued that any supposed shift has been greatly exaggerated, buoyed by the belief that not only are Democratic policies on Israel consistent with the U.S. Jewish community, but that American Jews prioritize domestic concerns over Israel when voting.

According to Pew's findings, however, the 2024 election marked a historic shift toward the Republican candidate, with 35 percent of Jewish voters backing Trump compared to 63 percent for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

While this still amounted to a net-28 support for Harris, the numbers stand in stark contrast to 2020 totals, where 70 percent voted for Democratic nominee Joe Biden vs. 27 percent for Trump – a net-43 for Biden.

According to Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks, the 15-point swing "confirms yet again what the RJC has been consistently saying: cycle after cycle, more and more Jewish Americans are moving to the GOP – and 2024 was no different."

Brooks noted the 2024 total for Trump was "the highest percentage for a Republican for president since the 1980s and a historic hemorrhaging of support from the Democrats," adding that "31 percent of Jewish voters identified as Republicans in the Pew survey, which is the highest percentage on record."

Jewish Democratic Council of America CEO Halie Soifer rejected the premise that 2024 marked a noted shift.

"Republicans should temper their enthusiasm and look closer at this study, which isn't representative of the Jewish electorate as a whole," she said. "The small sample of Jewish respondents – approximately 200 interviews – combined with a different screener for Jewish voters than Pew typically uses and what appears to be a lack of weighting for denominational representation, means the margin of error is high and this is not a methodologically accurate national study of Jewish voters."