{"id":116874,"date":"2024-11-07T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=116874"},"modified":"2024-11-07T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T09:34:09","slug":"07-00-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=116874","title":{"rendered":"Jewish supporters dot Trump\u2019s watch party, feeling Jewish vote has definitely shifted"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Jewish supporters dot Trump\u2019s watch party, feeling Jewish vote has definitely shifted<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Mike Wagenheim<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yehuda Kaploun, a member of Trump\u2019s circle, said of the Harris campaign\u2019s moves on Israel and antisemitism that their \u201c’shonda’ actions are our blessings.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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\nU.S. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance hugs Donald Trump Jr. during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center in Florida on Nov. 06, 2024. Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The evening started slowly at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. A trickle of Donald Trump supporters, the majority clad in red Make America Great Again hats, dotted the large event hall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There seemed to be an air of apprehension for hours, with nearly all major polls showing a statistical tie in all seven battleground states.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the night progressed, each wave of arrivals seemingly ushered in a piece of good news, as it became clearer that the pollsters got this election dead wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump finally appeared on stage at around 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time, with no clear explanation why he delayed his speech, as many attendees filtered out ahead of time, some with eyes glazed over from exhaustion, and a few with eyes watering from tears of joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

While there was no spotting of Israeli flags, by the time Trump clinched Pennsylvania, and with it put the proverbial nail in Kamala Harris\u2019s presidential hopes, there was no shortage of kippah-clad heads. A couple of dozen yellow ribbon pins, symbolizing support for the hostages held in Gaza, were visible on the suit lapels of attendees, several of whom told JNS they aren\u2019t Jewish, but felt the issue was of personal importance to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is much to make of the exit polls. One from\u00a0Fox News<\/em>\u00a0showed Trump captured 43% of the New York Jewish vote. Another from\u00a0NBC News<\/em>\u00a0projected that Trump took only 21% of the nationwide Jewish vote, a seeming impossibility. He registered around 30% four years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Mermer, a former Jewish engagement director for the Republican National Committee, told JNS that he felt there would be a surge for Trump among Jews in this cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI do feel that. The polling data, statistics, the Jewish community in Rockland [County in New York] has come out in force, the Lakewood [New Jersey] community, Miami, where now I reside,\u201d said Mermer. \u201cIt\u2019s just a storm for Trump, a force for good, and just the optimism speaking amongst my friends, my family, my colleagues\u2014there\u2019s most certainly a shift. And I\u2019m very excited tonight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Antisemitism and the Israel-Hamas war<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Adel Nyer, another Floridian, told JNS she felt issues like antisemitism, religious freedom and the Israel-Hamas war were critical drivers of Trump\u2019s voting base.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that it\u2019s one of the driving forces of this race. I think that the Jewish community has spoken up about who they believe that the right president is and who will support Israel and the Jewish people correctly,\u201d said Nyer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe antisemitism that we\u2019ve seen in the Biden-Kamala Harris presidency is just a clear picture of what it will look like if we have her as president for the next four years,\u201d Nyer added, before the result of the race was clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yehuda Kaploun, who has become Trump\u2019s de facto liaison to the Orthodox Jewish world, told JNS the Trump campaign\u2019s get-out-the-vote effort to the Jewish community was a \u201cresounding success.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the results dictate that \u201cthe Jewish community that we\u2019re not going to be taken for granted by the Democratic Party, and that we have tremendous respect for President Trump for what he\u2019s done for the Jewish community.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaploun said the focus of the campaign\u2019s messaging to Jews was \u201cvery simple,\u201d pointing to \u201cthe Jewish people\u2019s need to be safe and secure in religious liberty, which is guaranteed in America\u2019s constitution. It needs to be enforced. And you can\u2019t just shoot a Jew and yell Allahu Akbar and it\u2019s not a hate crime. You can\u2019t just walk down the street in Brooklyn, hit a Jew and it\u2019s not a hate crime and be released on a desk appearance ticket. Antisemitism is antisemitism.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaploun pointed to what he thought was another winning message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democratic Party seems to have forgotten that when people chant \u2018Death to Israel, the second verse is Death to America\u2019.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But despite what appeared to be a further shift toward the Republican Party by American Jews, the large majority stuck it out with Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump repeatedly said during the campaign that any American Jews who did so \u201cneed to have their head examined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nyer told JNS that, from her standpoint, \u201cJews that are voting liberal, it has a lot to do with social issues. The abortion topic sways a lot of people to vote liberal versus conservative and we may need to reevaluate abortion in the conservative movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad things for Iran<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As the results started to become clearer, and Trump appeared to be on a path to victory, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), whose name has been bandied about as a potential secretary of state, told JNS a Trump victory would mean \u201ca lot of good things for Israel and the United States, and a lot of bad things for Iran.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rubio said he would \u201cabsolutely hope so\u201d when asked if the newly Republican-controlled Senate would look at defunding the United Nations, \u201cparticularly those agencies at the U.N. that are basically infiltrated by supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Corey Lewandowski, a close adviser to Trump, told JNS that while domestic policy generally overshadows foreign affairs in presidential elections, he doesn\u2019t discount the impact the Israel-Hamas war and its consequences had on this election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIs it something that a lot of people went out and voted on? That issue of foreign policy isn\u2019t historically the issue that drives a campaign, but it clearly played a role in this election,\u201d said Lewandowski.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He called Israel \u201cour greatest ally in the Middle East\u201d and said, \u201cDonald Trump is very clear. We\u2019re going to support Israel and her endeavors. And listen, if Donald Trump had been the president, we wouldn\u2019t have seen the attack on Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lewandowski, who once served as an election campaign adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was asked by JNS what advice he might dispense to Netanyahu these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say, \u2018Be strong,\u2019 right? Israel has a right to defend herself, and she should do that, and we should make sure that if people are attacking Israel, she defends herself,\u201d said Lewandowski. \u201cBut more than that, she has to take care of her people, just like the United States has to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A victory in Pennsylvania essentially sealed the election for Trump, and it marked the first time the crowd in West Palm Beach truly erupted, sensing a return to the White House for the Republican was close at hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Harris had the opportunity to select as her running mate Pennsylvania\u2019s popular governor, Josh Shapiro. But, many analysts say Harris caved in to the far-left, antisemitic wing of the party, who objected to Shapiro\u2019s support of Israel, and, more fundamentally, his Jewish identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, Harris selected Minnesota\u2019s more progressive governor, Tim Walz, who seemingly brought little electoral value to the ticket in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaploun, using the Yiddish word for \u201cshame,\u201d said that the Harris campaign\u2019s \u201cshonda<\/em>\u00a0actions are our blessings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jewish supporters dot Trump\u2019s watch party, feeling Jewish vote has definitely shifted Mike Wagenheim Yehuda Kaploun, a member of Trump\u2019s circle, said of the Harris campaign\u2019s moves on Israel and antisemitism that their \u201c’shonda’ actions are our blessings.\u201d . U.S. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance hugs Donald Trump Jr. during an election night event at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116874"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116903,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116874\/revisions\/116903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}