Vice President Kamala Harris is outperforming former President Donald Trump among Jewish voters while the GOP candidate passes her among Catholic and Protestant voters.
An exit poll from NBC News shows the vice president holding 78% of Jewish support, compared to Trump's 22%. By comparison, Harris holds a 42% support among Catholics and a 37% among Protestant and other Christians, while Trump has a 56% of support among Catholics and a 61% among Protestant and other Christians.
The exit poll came as precincts across the U.S. continue closing across the country and no major surprise in the electoral college vote has risen.
At the same time, the Jewish vote for Harris comes amid a cycle where the War in Gaza has been a major point of tension for Democrats particularly.
A lot of tension is focused on Michigan, a battleground state where more than 310,000 people of Middle Eastern and North African ancestry reside, and where Muslim Palestinian Americans have started the "Uncommitted" movement, in which voters and lawmakers refused to endorse Harris directly due to her involvement in the Biden administration.
However, as Election Day quickly approached, the Uncommitted National Movement warned about the dangers of a second Trump presidency for both people in Gaza and anti-war organizers in the U.S., and also recommended against voting for a third-party candidate because of how it could contribute to an Electoral College win for Trump.
"With a second Trump presidency, both civilians in Palestine and our antiwar movement here in our country will suffer," Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of the Uncommitted movement said in a Nov. 1 ad sponsored by PACs Listen to US and Listen to Michigan.
Trump made the headlines during the campaign when appealing to the Jewish vote, warning the community in a September event that they would have "a lot to do" with it if he lost the election at an event addressing antisemitism.
"I'm not going to call this a prediction, but, in my opinion, the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss if I'm at 40%," Trump said at the event citing an unnamed poll. During his speech, Trump recounted several accomplishments made during his administration, such as having the U.S. leave the Iranian nuclear deal and moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, that benefitted Israelis.
Trump said that despite these achievements, he said that he has not been "treated right" by Jewish voters even though he stated he was the "most popular person in Israel." Trump vowed to take drastic measures against the rise in antisemitism on college campuses, and received a standing ovation when he called on Kamala Harris to renounce "all Hamas sympathizers."
Conversely, Trump's edge on Christian and Catholics doesn't come as a surprise, as he courted that electorate throughout his political career.
In the final campaign events with conservative Christians activists and politicians, Trump is promising to elevate not only their policy priorities but also their ideological influence. He says he will affirm that God made only two genders, male and female. He plans on creating a federal task force to fight anti-Christian bias, and he will give enhanced access to conservative Christian leaders if they elect him, The New York Times reports.
"It will be directly into the Oval Office— and me," Trump told pastors in Georgia. "We have to save religion in this country."
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