Republican Mike Rogers led Democrat Abdul El-Sayed 54% to 41% among Michigan Jewish voters who cast ballots on Election Day, according to a survey released Friday, JNS reports. El-Sayed won the Senate race.
The survey was sponsored by the Jewish Majority, which earlier found 57% of Jewish early voters went for Rogers. Mercury Public Affairs surveyed 883 Michigan Jewish voters by text between Oct. 25 and Nov. 10. Across the whole survey, El-Sayed drew 50% of Jewish respondents to Rogers' 43%. The margin of error was 3.9 points overall and 7.2 points for the Election Day group.
Among self-identified Jewish Democrats who voted on Election Day and rejected El-Sayed, 98% said they likely would have backed a different Democratic nominee, and 87% cited concerns about antisemitism.
"The more connected somebody was with the Jewish community, the less likely they were to vote for El-Sayed," the group's executive director, Jonathan Schulman, told JNS. He said voters want politicians "willing to do the hard thing, which is to call out antisemitism and anti-Israel views in their own party," and that how El-Sayed treats his whole constituency will be "a test of the senator-elect."
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