‘Don’t sit there wringing your hands, going, “I’m not going to get the Jewish vote,” because that’s just not the case,’ Scarborough says
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday that Jewish Americans will always vote Democratic, even if the party becomes tougher on Israel and puts conditions on military aid to the Jewish state.
“After all of the yammering I heard—’Oh, Jews will not support Democrats, this is the time’—70, 75, 80 percent of American Jews voted for Kamala Harris,” the Morning Joe host said. “They just do.”
“Don’t sit there wringing your hands, going, ‘I’m not going to get the Jewish vote,’ because that’s just not the case year after year after year after year,” Scarborough advised Democrats.
The Morning Joe panel was discussing the latest hostage deal between the Jewish state and Hamas. The terror group agreed to release 33 hostages—including 2 Americans—beginning Sunday. The news follows President-elect Donald Trump’s promise that there would be “hell to pay” if Hamas didn’t release hostages before his Monday inauguration.
Political analyst Anand Giridharadas said it is “very humiliating” that the United States did not flex its muscle to jockey Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back his offenses in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war. Giridharadas described Israel as the United States’ “financial dependent.”
Scarborough said Democrats should have been more aggressive in their posturing toward Israel.
“I can’t tell you how many times I heard people coming up to me, going, ‘Kamala Harris is going to lose because she’s not going to get the Jewish voters, because Joe Biden has been tough on this, or Joe Biden’s been tough on that,'” Scarborough said Friday. “If you’re sitting there going, ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t put conditions on bombs that I’m sending to Israel’ … if you’re a Democrat, and you’re making that calculation, that is the wrong calculation to make.”
Exit polls show that Harris received 78 percent of the Jewish vote in 2024—an increase from 2020, when President Joe Biden received 69 percent.
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