In 2016, Jewish voters chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by 71% to 24%. In two weeks, 75% say they’ll vote for Joe Biden and 22% for Trump, according to a survey released this week by the American Jewish Committee. In the swing states of Florida and Pennsylvania, where Jews make up 3%-4% of the voting population, a new poll by J Street shows margins of 75%-22% and 73%-22% respectively.
Jews, of course, have been stalwart Democratic voters for a long time — nearly a century, to be precise. Seventy-one percent voted for Al Smith in 1928 and then, with the onset of the Great Depression, they jumped into the New Deal coalition with both feet. Eighty-two percent voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, 85% in 1936 and 90% in 1940 and 1944.
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