While noncitizen voting is a concern in the U.S., if noncitizens were allowed to cast ballots from the nation of Israel, Trump would have a runaway lead.
A poll released this week by Tel Aviv’s Channel 12 TV showed Israelis prefer Trump by 66% to 17% for Harris. Another 17% said they were undecided.
“Two out of three want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States," Joel Rosenberg, author and Middle East analyst, said on American Family Radio Tuesday.
"For the Jewish state to so overwhelmingly support Trump... I think the Jews of Israel are pretty clear. They would not be supporting a Nazi," he said.
Rosenberg was referring to nonstop claims by the Left that Trump is like Hitler. Harris called Trump a fascist in her CNN Town Hall with Anderson Cooper last week.
The same day, she called Trump a fascist who wants “unchecked power.”
She has quoted from comments made by former Trump chief of staff John Kelly article that appeared in The Atlantic in which Kelly said Trump praised the German generals who swore loyalty to Adolf Hitler.
Just last week, Harris referenced Kelly’s comments in a speech.
'Suckers and losers' vs. the truth
Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s former White House press secretary, discredited the Kelly story in an appearance on Fox News the morning after the article by Jeffrey Goldberg went live online.
"The reason my antennas went up last night when I saw the name Jeffrey Goldberg is because I was on a tarmac in September of 2020 and a story popped from him in The Atlantic and it was the 'suckers and loser' story we have all heard,” she said.
McEnany went to work on the tarmac and quickly found multiple sources who refuted Goldberg’s account in 2020.
“Within hours," she recalled, "I was able to collect more than a dozen individuals, several who were firsthand sources saying that never happened.”
The talking points are a “pretty shrill and hysterical attack that Kamala Harris and her allies are making that Donald Trump is a Nazi,” Rosenberg told show host Jenna Ellis.
“Donald Trump has done many things that I have not agreed with," he continued, "but the man is not a Nazi. He's actually fighting the Nazis, fighting radical Islam. He destroyed ISIS, he confronted Iran, the Nazis that run Iran, more than any American president in history.”
Will American Jews vote Republican?
American Jews have typically voted Democrat. A Quinnipiac University poll in September showed Harris with a big lead among Jews in swing states with 56% support in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada.
A poll by the Jewish Democratic Council of America showed Harris overall with a 72%-25% edge against Trump.
Other polls show less Harris support by American Jews. A Pew Research poll conducted from Aug. 26-Sept. 2 showed Trump support had jumped to 34%. If that plays out, it could be the worst performance among Jews by a Democratic presidential candidate in decades.
Israeli Jews don’t have a vote, but they have opinions.
“People in the Middle East are watching this race more closely than any presidential election ever because they know the differences in in U. S. policy towards Israel, towards Iran, towards the Sunni Arab world are going to be so sharply and starkly different if Trump is the president versus Harris being the president,” Rosenberg said.
Israelis briefly supported Joe Biden, the sitting president who moved aside to allow Harris to run, when Biden made strong comments supporting Israel in the early days after Hamas’ murderous rampage on Oct. 7 of last year.
That support diminished as Biden, with Vice President Harris at his side, began to place restraints and demands on Israel such as repeated demands for a ceasefire. Israel refused to do so and presses ahead.
Trump’s record on Israel
Trump pushed through a number of pro-Israel moves during his time as president, including the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. He also recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and he took stronger public stances against Iran.
In addition to Trump’s record on Israel, the beginning of Harris interviews on the campaign trail has also boosted the former president, Rosenberg said.
“She was at her high point about a month ago, but then she started talking," Rosenberg recalled. "Kamala Harris started doing interviews and town hall meetings, and Americans were like, ‘whoa, whoa, whoa.’ I don’t think she knows what’s she’s doing, and her numbers have started to drop to where there’s been a significant shift back to Trump."
While refusing to predict a Trump win next week, Rosenberg said the Republican candidate is doing better than 2016.
"It’s looking pretty good for Trump, but boy, every vote counts,” he said.
