Trump repeats attacks on Jewish political leaders and voters as battle for key group heats up

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56% : His organization is hosting its annual leadership summit starting Wednesday in Las Vegas, featuring appearances from a number of prominent Republican luminaries -- including Trump.
52% : One survey of Pennsylvania Jewish voters conducted earlier this month by Honan Strategy Group, a research firm that has worked for prominent Democratic clients, and shared with NBC News, found that 55% favored Harris while 43% backed Trump -- a result that was encouraging for the former president, given that north of 60% or 70% of Jewish voters typically vote Democratic.
49% : Earlier this month, Trump launched his "Jewish Voices for Trump" coalition, which says in its mission statement that its aim is "standing up to radical antisemitism, championing Jewish heritage, defending our allies in Israel, and supporting President Trump's campaign to retake the White House.
46% : "Following Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's speech at the Democratic National Convention, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to call Shapiro a "highly overrated Jewish Governor" who "for strictly political reasons, refused to acknowledge that I am the best friend that Israel, and the Jewish people, ever had," adding Shapiro "has done nothing for Israel, and never will.
33% : Trump and his allies, meanwhile, are ramping up their Jewish outreach -- and they argue that his words will have little impact in blunting any momentum, pointing to his actions on Israel as president.
32% : "Trump believes that he's entitled to the Jewish vote, entitled to support from Jews, and when they don't give it to him, he immediately defaults to this idea of the disloyal or bad Jew.
30% : (Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said at the time that Trump "obviously wasn't agreeing with [the radio host's] sentiment.")It was reminiscent of repeated comments Trump has made during the campaign, like when he said any Jewish person who votes for Democrats "hates their religion.
28% : "If Trump's intention was to alienate every possible gettable Jewish voter who has been disillusioned by Dems but still unsure if they could vote for him, this was an A+ post," tweeted Philip Klein, editor of the conservative National Review Online, in response to Trump's Shapiro post.While Jewish Americans can be a difficult group to survey, some polls this year have shown Trump and Republicans making inroads with Jewish voters, who have overwhelmingly voted Democratic at the presidential level for decades.
26% : Trump said the two "have blood on their hands" and are "directly responsible for unnecessary deaths that should have never happened.
21% : James Singer, a Harris campaign spokesperson, told NBC News in a statement that Trump "is a weak man who thinks attacking Jewish Americans makes him strong.
21% : "Trump is going to lose again this November because Americans are sick of his hateful resentment, personal attacks, and extreme agenda.
18% : "Trump has used Palestinian identity as a slur against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., multiple times this year, saying the prominent Jewish leader has "become like a Palestinian.
16% : A handful of other polls before President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race showed the Democrat with a bigger lead over Trump, though with some slippage compared to 2020 polls.
16% : Both the White House and Harris' campaign have condemned Trump for his comments aimed at Jewish leaders.
11% : "In his statement on Sunday, Trump explicitly went after Biden and Harris for the hostage deaths -- which other Republicans refrained from doing in their own comments.
8% : "Last month, Trump muttered "yeah" several times as a New York radio host, Sid Rosenberg, described Vice President Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff as "a crappy Jew."
3% : "Responding to his most recent remark while talking to reporters at the DNC, Shapiro said Trump "has routinely peddled antisemitic tropes like this," while Emhoff said Trump "should be ashamed.

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