The Jewish Electorate

Note: We are presenting raw data. When available, we provide some or all of the crosstabs (i.e., breakdowns by various categories such as party ID). To analyze the data, we encourage users to read the entire study and the methodology used. Results and reliability can be affected by such things as sample size, question wording, and question order. Responses may also be influenced by context and timing; for example, if the survey is conducted during a war.

Below is a list of issues facing our country today. Please indicate which two of these issues you want President Joe Biden and Congress to focus on. (Jewish Electorate Institute, June 28-July 1, 2021, March 28-April 3, 2022)

	2021	2022
Climate change	32%	29%
Voting rights	26%	28%
Jobs and the economy	24%	25%
Health care	17%	18%
Ukraine		13%
Crime		13%
Guns	17%	12%
Immigration	11%	11%
Education		11%
National security	10%	10%
Social Security and Medicare	11%	9%
Anti-Semitism	9%	6%
Race relations	7%
Affordable housing	6%
COVID-19 pandemic	18%	5%
Abortion	3%
Israel	4%	4%
Iran	3%	3%

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president? (Jewish Electorate Institute, June 28-July 1, 2021, March 28-April 3, 2022)

	2021	2022
Approve	80%	63%
Disapprove	20%	37%

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling relations with Israel? (Jewish Electorate Institute, June 28-July 1, 2021)

	2021
Approve	74%
Disapprove	26%

Now you will read a list of issues that some people will be thinking about when they decide how to vote on elections for President, U.S. Congress, and other offices in 2020. For each one, please indicate how important that particular issue will be for you personally in deciding for whom you will vote. (Jewish Electorate Institute, March 28-April 3, 2022)

	2018	2019	2020	2020 (AJC)
Protecting Medicare and Social Security	84	87	89
Making quality affordable health care available to every American	83	80	91	17
Enacting gun safety laws	73	79	82
Combating the influence of white supremicists and the far right	75	78
Combating terrorism	74	82
Improving the economy and creating jobs	87	86	92	13
Coronavirus response			90	26
Combating anti-Semitism			82
Foreign policy			82	5
Supreme Court justices			81
Police brutality			77
Systemic racism			75	12
Crime				6
Israel			64

*Israel was ranked last of 16 issues.

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president? (Jewish Electorate Institute, March 28-April 3, 2022)

	2018	2019	Feb.. 2020	Sept. 2020	2020 (AJC)
Approve	25	29	28	30	22
Disapprove	75	71	66	67	77

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president? (2019)

	Approve	Disapprove
Under 30 (non-Orthodox)	31	69
Millennial (non-Orthodox)	33	67
Generation X	30	70
Baby Boomer	25	75
Silent/Greatest	22	78
Orthodox	57	43
Conservative	34	66
Reform	23	77
None	24	76

How would you rate the job Donald Trump is doing on each of the following issues? (Pew, Nov. 19, 2019-June 3, 2020)

	2019-20
Excellent	23
Good	17
Only fair	23
Poor	35
No answer	1

Please indicate if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression of ....Donald Trump

	2019	2020	2022 JEI
Favorable	26	30	21
Unfavorable	70	69	77

Please indicate if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression of ....Joe Biden

	Feb. 2020	Sept. 2020	2022 JEI
Favorable	60	70	58
Unfavorable	36	28	38

If the presidential election were held today, for whom would you most likely vote?

	AJC 2020	JEI Sept 2020
Trump	22	30
Biden	75	67

Below is a list of issues, for each please indicate whether you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling that issue. (2019)

	Anti-Semitism	Foreign Policy
Approve	29	32
Disapprove	71	68

Generally speaking, do you consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat or something else?

	2018	2019	2020
Democrat	68	66	66
Republican	25	25	26
Independent	7	9

Compared to two years ago, are Jews in the United States currently more secure or less secure?

	2019	2020
More secure	8	11
About the same	19	29
Less secure	73	54

Favorable/Unfavorable view of [not question wording]

	Sept. 2020
	Favorable	Unfavorable
Protestors marching for social justice	66	26
Black Lives Matter	66	28

In your opinion, is President Trump at least partially responsible for the targeted on synagogues, including those in Pittsburgh and Poway? (2019)

Yes	59
No	41

Which of the following is most concerning to you? (2019)

President Trump: encouraging ultra right extremists committing violent attacks	38
Republicans: tolerating anti-Semitism and alliances with white nationalists within their ranks	28
Democrats: tolerating anti-Semitism within their ranks	27
Republicans: encouraging Islamophobia that leads to more violence	7

And in your opinion, which one or two of the following would be the best way for individuals or communities to help improve the security of Jews in the United States? (2019)

Help get people elected with the best values	43
Work to get Donald Trump out	39
Press Democrats: to condemn anti-Semitism	31
Add to armed security	12
Become more active in Jewish social action groups	12
Join ecumenical groups to change the climate of hate	11
Becom more active in synagogue	4

Sources: Jewish Electorate Institute, (May 22, 2019, February 18-24, 2020, September 2-7, 2020);
AJC 2020 Survey of American Jewish Opinion, American Jewish Committee, (September 9-October 4, 2020).