We are delighted to confirm that President Donald
Trump will speak during the RJC’s Annual Leadership Meeting
in Las Vegas for the second straight year!
The President will appear at the RJC’s Pro-Israel Appreciation Event to
Thank President Trump on March 14, where some 2,000 pro-Israel
Republicans will gather to express their support for the President and
for his unwaveringly strong pro-Israel policies.
There is still time to register for the
Annual
Leadership Meeting (open to RJC Leaders and
guests) and
for the event with President Trump
(open to RJC members
and friends - click
here and
use the code “Reagan”).
President Trump’s support for Israel is one reason the RJC
expects to see Trump win even more of the Jewish vote in 2020 than he
did in 2016. A recent poll for the Jewish Electorate Institute found
that President Trump would get 30% of the Jewish vote against any of
the top Democratic primary contenders and that 51% of American Jews
approve of Trump’s handling of US-Israel relations. Among Jewish
Republicans, Trump received an 81% approval rating.
In response to the poll, RJC Executive Director Matt
Brooks told
the Jewish Insider:
These results are consistent with what we’ve been saying since
the start of this campaign that President Trump will significantly
increase the share of the Jewish vote from where he was in 2016. It
was only a few months ago when many pundits in the Jewish community
were projecting that Trump would get the lowest share of the Jewish
vote of any president in history, and now multiple polls are showing
that he’s going to get one of the highest percentages of the Jewish
vote in modern elections.
Another reason
President Trump’s numbers are trending upward in the Jewish community
is the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic ideology displayed by left-wing
Democrats, including one of the Democratic Party front-runners,
Bernie Sanders.
In an interview this week, Matt Brooks spoke
about the risk our community would face from a President Sanders
and about the RJC’s role in increasing the Republican share of the
Jewish vote over time:
[There is] a lot riding on this [election] in terms of the
Jewish community,” Brooks said. ‘We run the risk, if Bernie Sanders is
the nominee, of having an election in which we potentially trade in
the most pro-Israel president in the history of this country for the
first enemy-of-Israel president in this country… For those who care
about the US-Israel relationship, for those who care about supporting
our most important ally in the region, Bernie Sanders would be an
absolutely unmitigated disaster.
...After the 1992 election, when George H. W
Bush got eleven percent of the Jewish vote, we started at the
Republican Jewish Coalition to invest heavily in outreach to the
Jewish community,” Brooks recalled. “As a result, the [Republican]
share of the Jewish vote has increased steadily since then, to the
point where we were getting eleven percent of the Jewish vote, and
we’ve now got about two and a half to three [times] that.
Between 2016 and 2012, you know, we’re somewhere between 25
and 30 percent of the Jewish vote, which is a huge increase and a
significant erosion of support for [Democrats from] the Jewish
community.
I will tell you that I am confident that in 2020, President
Trump — no matter who the Democrat nominee will be, and especially if
it’s Bernie Sanders — will increase [his] support among Jewish voters
and do better among Jewish voters in 2020 than 2016.
