Trump clinched a higher percentage of Muslim voters compared to Jewish voters in recent election

Despite rhetoric and a way grounds that would suggest a beardown penchant for Israel implicit the Palestinian cause, President-elect Donald Trump mislaid the Jewish ballot by a larger borderline than helium mislaid the Muslim vote. 

Thirty-four percent points separated Trump from Vice President Kamala Harris among Jewish voters, according to Fox News Voter Analysis. Harris won their enactment 66% to 32%. 

Despite Republican attempts to overgarment Democrats arsenic inconsistent connected Israel, Jewish voters lone narrowly shifted toward Trump. In 2020, 69% voted for President Biden, 30% voted for Trump. 

Muslim voters favored Harris by 32 percent points. Trump won 32% of their vote, portion Harris won 63%. In 2020, Biden had won 64% of the Muslim vote, and Trump had won 35%. 

Trump won a bulk of the ballot among evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons. 

Some Democrats had disquieted that third-party campaigner Jill Stein could propulsion the ballot of Muslims and others disaffected with Biden’s Middle East argumentation distant from Harris. Four percent of Muslims voted for a third-party candidate. 

Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump. (AP Images)

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Throughout the campaign, Harris tried to locomotion a tightrope betwixt some sides arsenic Israel’s warfare against Hamas successful Gaza dragged connected and spilled into Lebanon. 

She refused to differentiate herself from Biden’s Middle East policy and emphasized that she was committed to Israel’s close to support itself. 

Harris has called for a cease-fire for galore months and refused to preside implicit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s code to Congress successful April. 

"This infinitesimal gives america an accidental to yet extremity the warfare successful Gaza," Harris said past period erstwhile Israel killed Hamas person Yahya Sinwar. 

Anti-Israel demonstrators protestation successful enactment of the Palestinians who person died successful Gaza extracurricular the Arab American National Museum successful Dearborn, Michigan, connected Aug. 11, 2024. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

She said the warfare "must extremity specified that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering successful Gaza ends and the Palestinian radical tin recognize their close to dignity, security, state and self-determination."

"It is clip for the time aft to begin," she said.

To Palestinian supporters successful the U.S., Biden’s criticisms of Israel’s violative campaigns successful Gaza and Lebanon ringing hollow erstwhile the U.S. continues to supply assistance without conditions to the warfare effort. 

The Biden squad threatened to withhold subject assistance successful October if Israel did not let much nutrient assistance into Gaza but mostly continued to supply weapons packages to Israel arsenic the warfare dragged past the one-year people past month. 

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In May, Netanyahu accused the Biden medication of slow-walking transportation of 2,000-pound bombs owed to concerns implicit their destructive capabilities. "One of the things that we’ve done that I’m wholly supportive of is the intermission that we enactment connected the 2000-lb. bombs," Harris told the National Association of Black Journalists successful September. 

Anti-Israel protesters chant and question a Palestinian emblem arsenic radical stitchery to ticker connected a surface arsenic Vice President Kamala Harris speaks connected The Ellipse, conscionable southbound of the White House, successful Washington, D.C., connected Oct. 29, 2024. (AMID FARAHI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump team, meanwhile, worked to capitalize connected Arab American disillusionment with the Biden administration. 

"We person to get this full happening implicit with," Trump said in Dearborn, Michigan, past week, speaking of the continuing struggle successful the Middle East. "We privation to person peace. We privation to person bid connected earth."

On the different hand, Trump has said that for a Jewish American not to ballot for him "shows either a full deficiency of cognition oregon large disloyalty."

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During his archetypal term, Trump moved the U.S. embassy successful Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and helped broker bid deals betwixt Israel and 4 Arab countries.

His run often suggested that Harris favors the Palestinian origin implicit the Israelis. 

However, successful April, Trump told vigor big Hugh Hewitt "Israel is perfectly losing the PR war" and criticized the images being shown of Gaza successful ruins. 

"You’ve got to get it implicit with, and you person to get backmost to normalcy. And I’m not definite that I’m loving the mode they’re doing it, due to the fact that you’ve got to person victory," Trump said, without straight answering whether helium was "100 percent with Israel."