American Jews voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, as they have for every Democratic candidate since 1972. She won 70 percent of the American Jewish vote to Donald Trump’s 25 percent. This put her squarely in the average of the past 12 elections. The figures show once again that the American Jewish community is overwhelmingly progressive, socially liberal and strongly in favor of a foreign policy that focuses first on diplomacy while supporting a two-state solution to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
J Street and JStreetPAC made a difference in 2016.