--- title: Jewish Voters Still Back Democrats, Despite Trump's Claims description: Jewish voters continue to overwhelmingly support Democrats, despite President Donald Trump's recent claims otherwise. canonical: https://time.com/5552377/donald-trump-jexodus-jews-democrats/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-15T15:21:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:25:19.112Z article:section: Politics og:title: Jewish Voters Still Back Democrats, Despite Trump's Claims About 'Jexodus' og:description: 79% of Jewish voters backed Democratic candidates for Congress in November og:url: https://time.com/5552377/donald-trump-jexodus-jews-democrats/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a60d0d28a19c019/698946be8fd2ee5d7f35df4c/donald-trump-jexodus-republican-jews.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4450 og:image:height: 2503 og:image:alt: President Donald Trump Departs White House To Survey Alabama Tornado Damage og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jewish Voters Still Back Democrats, Despite Trump's Claims About 'Jexodus' twitter:description: 79% of Jewish voters backed Democratic candidates for Congress in November twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a60d0d28a19c019/698946be8fd2ee5d7f35df4c/donald-trump-jexodus-republican-jews.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 00:50 video:published: 2019-03-11 section: politics topics: anti-Semitism allegations, Democratic Party remarks, presidential statements, U.S.-Israel relations, congressional resolutions, committee discipline, Steve King comments, White House press briefing genre: news, press briefing tones: combative, defensive, accusatory, formal emotions: anger (medium), indignation (medium), defensiveness (medium) sentiment: negative audience: political news audiences, policy observers, Jewish community members, voters people: Sarah Sanders, Steve King organizations: Democratic Party, Republican Party, TIME content_suitability: hate [00:00-00:50]; politics [00:00-00:50] transcript_source: publisher captions transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # Jewish Voters Still Back Democrats, Despite Trump's Claims About 'Jexodus' > Sponsored content. 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Sarah Sanders Is Asked If Democrats Are Anti-Jewish_ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary A reporter asks White House press secretary Sarah Sanders whether President Trump believes Democrats hate Jewish people, citing a report and a tweet calling Democrats an anti-Jewish party. Sanders responds that the president is a committed ally to Israel and the Jewish people, and that remarks by some Democrats, not called out by party leadership, are abhorrent. She contrasts this with how Republicans handled Steve King's comments and calls on Democrats to follow suit. ## Key points - A reporter cites a recent report that the president said Democrats hate Jewish people. (00:00) - The reporter also references a tweet describing Democrats as the anti-Jewish party. (00:07) - Sanders says the president has been an unwavering and committed ally to Israel and the Jewish people. (00:14) - Sanders calls remarks made by some Democrats, which leadership failed to call out, abhorrent. (00:25) - Sanders argues the issue should be named directly rather than addressed in a watered-down resolution. (00:35) - Sanders says Republicans called out Steve King by name and stripped him of his committee memberships. (00:41) - Sanders says she would like to see Democrats follow the same approach. (00:46) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:14] Reporter raises claims about Democrats and Jews. A reporter asks whether the president believes Democrats hate Jewish people, citing a report and a tweet. - [00:14 to 00:25] Sanders defends president's record on Israel. Sanders says the president is a committed ally to Israel and the Jewish people. - [00:25 to 00:50] Sanders demands Democrats condemn remarks by name. Sanders criticizes Democratic leadership for not calling out remarks and compares the response to the Republican handling of Steve King. ## Key quotes - [00:14] Sarah Sanders: "the President has been an unwavering and committed ally to Israel and the Jewish people" - [00:25] Sarah Sanders: "the remarks that have been made by a number Of democrats and failed to be called out by democrat leadership is frankly abhorrent" - [00:35] Sarah Sanders: "It shouldn't be put in a watered down resolution." - [00:41] Sarah Sanders: "We called it out by name, we stripped him of his committee memberships" ## Questions this video answers - Does the president believe Democrats hate Jews? [00:00] - Has the president been an ally to Israel and the Jewish people? [00:14] - How should remarks by Democrats be addressed by party leadership? [00:35] - How did Republicans respond to Steve King's comments? [00:41] ## Content suitability - hate [00:00-00:50]: The video centers on allegations that a political party is anti-Jewish, including the term 'anti-Jewish Party'. - politics [00:00-00:50]: A partisan exchange at a White House press briefing about accusations of anti-Semitism between parties. by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Mar 15, 2019 3:21 PM UTC Sarah Sanders Is Asked If Democrats Are Anti-Jewish by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Mar 15, 2019 3:21 PM UTC Jewish voters continue to overwhelmingly support Democrats, despite President Donald Trump’s recent claims otherwise. In the past week, the president has twice tweeted about a group represented by a former Trump campaign staffer that is encouraging Jewish voters to join the Republican Party. “The ‘Jexodus’ movement encourages Jewish people to leave the Democrat Party. Total disrespect! Republicans are waiting with open arms,” the President declared on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1106526246144487424) But polls and election results show that there is nothing like the movement that Trump describes going on. In the November 2018 midterms, for example, 79% of Jewish voters backed Democratic candidates for Congress, according to [Pew Research Center](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/07/how-religious-groups-voted-in-the-midterm-elections/). This was slightly below 2006 levels but an increase from the 2014 midterms. On the [presidential front](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/), Jewish voters have overwhelmingly supported Democrats for decades: Al Gore won 79% of Jewish voters in 2000, John Kerry won 74% in 2004, Barack Obama won 78% in 2008 and 69% in 2012, and Hillary Clinton won 71% in 2016. So what is Jexodus? A combination of the words “Jewish” and “exodus,” the group has appeared recently touting a purported break from the Democratic Party. The group’s website says that Jewish millennials are “tired of living in bondage to leftist politics” and claims that Democrats are anti-Semitic and taking them for granted. The group’s website lists as a spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko, who is described as a former model and Trump staffer. ## Transcript [00:00] Sarah, the president said that Democrats [00:04] hate Jewish people, according to a recent report. [00:07] We've also seen a tweet in the last couple of days, that [00:11] Democrats are, quote, the anti- Jewish Party that does [00:14] the President really believe Democrats hate Jews? Look [00:17] the President has been an unwavering and committed [00:20] ally to Israel and the Jewish people. And frankly [00:25] the remarks that have been made by a number Of [00:27] democrats and failed to be called out by democrat [00:31] leadership is frankly abhorrent and it's sad and it's [00:35] something that should be called by name. It shouldn't [00:39] be put in a watered down resolution. It should be done [00:41] the way the republicans did it when Steve King made [00:44] terrible comments. 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