(29 Oct 2024)
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West Bloomfield Township, Michigan – 27 October 2024
1. David Cuttner (left) and Noam Nedivi (right) of the Republican Jewish Coalition walk along a neighborhood street during a door-knocking effort
2. Cuttner pulls a Donald Trump campaign sticker out of his bag
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Noam Nedivi, Republican Jewish Coalition:
“We are here talking to voters, talking to the Jewish voters, telling them what we think about Donald Trump and how he can help Jewish voters. And we think Trump is the best option for Jewish voters.”
4. UPSOUND Cuttner asks neighborhood resident David Rabens if he is supporting Trump, and Rabens responds with (English) “Yes, 100%”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cuttner, Republican Jewish Coalition:
“Forget that we’re Democrats and Republicans. Who can do the best job for you in Washington?”
6. Various of the door-knocking operation
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Noam Nedivi, Republican Jewish Coalition:
“Jewish voters play a crucial part in this election, because I think a lot of Jewish voters who voted before for the Democratic Party swayed away to the Republican side because of the war in Israel.”
8. Nedivi on the move
9. A Trump flag is displayed outside a home
10. Cuttner and Nedivi walk past a Trump yard sign
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Golden, Kamala Harris supporter:
“They try to get us to come their way, because we are of the same faith. We are just not of the same beliefs that they share.”
12. Cuttner and Nedivi walk along the street
13. A person walks toward the West Bloomfield Township library, home to an early voting polling station
14. Various of voting
15. A voter takes a sticker
16. A voter feeds a ballot into a tabulating machine
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Noam Nedivi, Republican Jewish Coalition:
“We’re trying to convince them to go out and vote early. And after they vote early, try to talk to their friends, talk to their family and go vote for Trump and for the Republican Party.”
18. Cuttner and Nedivi walk away
STORYLINE:
A Republican group is undertaking a new effort this year to do door-to-door outreach to those Jewish voters who have a history of backing GOP candidates.
The Republican Jewish Coalition is focusing on five battleground states to boost Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 election.
Surveys show that Jews vote decidedly Democratic. But the group is hoping that the door-knocking will peel off enough votes to make a difference in a tight election year when the war between Israel and Hamas has stoked debate and provoked division.
About 7 in 10 Jewish voters nationally backed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, while about 3 in 10 backed Trump that year. That’s according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of the electorate. A Pew Research Center poll released last month found that about two-thirds of Jewish voters back Harris.
Biden carried Michigan in 2020 by fewer than 155,000 votes out of roughly 5.5 million cast. Although Jewish voters account for only 2% of the state’s voters, the 15,000 new Jewish Republican voters the coalition has identified since the 2020 election — out of roughly 120,000 Jewish voters in the state — could make an impact in what is shaping up to be a very close race.
The Republican Jewish Coalition’s targeting is very specific in Michigan, as it is in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Here, its work is centered in Oakland County, the state’s second most-populous county, with 1.3 million people just northwest of Detroit.
Not all neighborhood residents agreed with the group’s message.
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