According to a survey, Jews are still predominantly Democrats

Just over three quarters of American Jews have an unfavorable view of President Donald Trump and 74% of them plan to vote for Democrats in mid-term elections next month.

This is reflected in a new poll by The Jewish Electorate Institute, a new group founded by Jewish Democrats and published on October 17.

Although these findings follow decades of earlier data – Jews have largely voted Democrats since the early twentieth century, and no Republican presidential candidate has ever beaten the 43% of the Jewish electorate captured by the Warren G. Harding campaign in 1920 – other discoveries revealed some interesting tensions created by the Trump era.

Although 24% of the 800 respondents said they had a favorable opinion of Trump, 51% said they approve of the way he handled US-Israel relations. Forty-one percent approved the decision to relocate the US Embbady in Jerusalem and 6% said they would consider voting for him because of his work on

US-Israeli relations, despite their other reservations about its mandate.

In addition, 64% said they believed the Democrats were a "pro-Israel" party and 84% of those who identified themselves as Democrats were also identified as "pro-Israel".

"Israel's policy will not win a vote for Republicans in November," said Hailie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America.

The Republican Jewish Coalition did not respond to several requests for comment.

The poll was conducted by The Mellman Group, which interviewed Democratic, Jewish and other groups. Michael Gelman and Stuart Kurlander, members of the Mid-Atlantic Media Board of Directors, are members of the Jewish Electoral Institute's Board of Directors. Jewish exhibitor.

The question of being "pro-Israel" had important internal factions: 32% said they were both pro-Israel and supportive of its policies; 35% said they support Israel, but remain critical of some policies; and 24% responded that they were pro-Israel but critical of "many" policies. Only 3% said they were "generally not pro-Israeli".

Health care was the most serious problem in Trump's survey of Jewish voters surveyed. Seventy-eight percent said they disagreed with the work they had done so far. Eighty-three percent said it was "very important" to make quality affordable health care available to every American to decide how to vote.

In contrast, 52% rated Israel as "very important" to their voting.

Jesse Bernstein is an editor for the Baltimore Jewish Times, a publication affiliated with Jewish Exhibant.