The Jewish Vote Moves Toward the GOP

N ovember 3 was a hard night for Republicans, and I would be less than candid if I wrote otherwise. We lost good friends and principled leaders who stood shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish community for years. We owe them our sincere gratitude, and we will feel their absence.

But if you want to understand what this election really means for American Jews, look past the top-line results and look at whom the Democratic Party just sent to Washington.

The Democrats did not merely drift leftward; they elected the most radical freshman class in the history of Congress. Candidates who make excuses for antisemitic violence. Candidates who campaign on defunding the police that guard our synagogues. Candidates who proudly stand shoulder to shoulder with terrorism apologists. Candidates who smear the world’s only Jewish state as genocidal, and who vote the Democratic Socialists of America line without exception.

These are not fringe activists. They are senators- and representatives-elect, with powerful votes, committee seats, and subpoena power. The silence from Jewish Democratic organizations, who spent decades assuring our community that their party had our backs, has been deafening and shameful.

Here is what should capture the attention of every American Jew and give Republicans reason for hope: Even on a brutal night for Republicans, the Jewish vote moved our way. According to early exit polls, Jewish voters swung sharply — 19 points nationwide — to the GOP from 2024. Notably, in the key battleground state of Michigan, where the Republican Jewish Coalition invested significant effort and resources to try to defeat Abdul El-Sayed, precinct-level vote data clearly show that the more Jewish the precinct, the bigger the swing to Republican Mike Rogers. In a community that has largely pulled the Democratic lever reflexively for generations, Jewish Americans are waking up — withholding their political and financial support, and in many cases, openly backing GOP candidates.

For years, we took it for granted that Jewish safety and the U.S.-Israel relationship had bipartisan support. November 3 ended that paradigm.

The Democrats’ choice clarifies ours. The Republican Party is now, without qualification, the political home for Americans who care about Jewish security, confronting Jew-hatred wherever it festers, supporting the U.S.-Israel alliance, defending Judeo-Christian values, and promoting the pro-America policies that have defined our nation’s greatness from the beginning. We have said it before: If you stand against the Jewish community, we will work to defeat you. A tough election does not change that standard; it only sharpens it.

So this is our answer to the 2026 midterm election: We are not discouraged, and we are not going anywhere. We will build a larger, stronger, and more politically engaged Jewish Republican community than this country has ever seen. We will keep making the case, family by family, vote by vote, that the Republican Party is the political home for pro-America, pro-Israel voters. And we are going to continue to hold public officials in both parties accountable, particularly those rising on the radicalized far left.

The forces arrayed against us are not hypothetical. They now sit in Congress. And that makes the work of the Republican Jewish Coalition not simply relevant but vital. While we are deeply disappointed by the midterm election result, we are not for one moment discouraged about what comes next. We are ready for this fight. The stakes have never been higher, the threats have never been clearer, and we intend to meet them head-on and win.