Vice President Kamala Harris captured 71 percent of the Jewish American vote in the 2024 presidential election, while a majority of Americans, comprised of multiple demographic groups, including crossover Democrats, voted for President Donald Trump. In contrast, Trump won only 26 percent.

Why? Why do Jewish voters continue to support Democratic candidates by a substantial margin?

The question is easy enough; the answer is beyond complicated.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, pro-Trump author and journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon offered advice to Republicans on how to make substantial inroads with Jewish voters after the GOP again saw underwhelming movement within the key voting bloc in the 2024 election. 

While it can be argued with authority that Israel has no more loyal friend on the planet than the American Republican Party, Ungar-Sargon told Fox that Republicans have to do more to earn the Jewish vote than just support the Jewish state. Even then, she said, "I'm not sure it's possible."

First of all, I'm not sure it's possible. The American Jewish community is very highly educated. So 30 percent of Americans have a college degree, a 4-year degree. 60 percent of American Jews do. It's very hard to get people who have been through the humanities in the United States in a university and a fancy university, to ever consider voting for a Republican, because the primary thing they're taught at their fancy universities is to have contempt for Republicans and contempt for the working class and contempt for conservative values. So that's going to be a hard sell.

While Trump won 74 percent of the conservative Orthodox Jewish vote, he was shellacked by the left-leaning Reform Jewish vote, a subsection of Judaism largely committed to "social justice" and other so-called "progressive" domestic issues. In other words, just like the rest of the left.

Ungar-Sargon praised Trump's strong support for Israel, but...

I think everything President Trump is doing with regards to Israel is big. [But], most Americans, Jews, I don't think vote on Israel. I think most people don't vote on foreign policy. They vote on domestic policy.

The Democrats have cast themselves for 100 years, probably more, as the compassionate side. And the Republicans never really rebutted that. 

It's clear to me now that the Republicans in the MAGA version is a much more compassionate movement because the Democrats' quote unquote ‘compassion’ leads to immense amounts of cruelty.

Moreover, Ungar-Sargon said it's "very important" for Republicans to marginalize the growing "anti-Israel wing of the far right" but emphasized again that earning more support from Jewish voters has to go beyond Israel. 

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The journalist advised Republicans to shift their messaging away from "crime more libs" that gets social media attention for sure, to expressing "I get where you're coming from" to Jewish voters — to something like the following:

I understand that you feel sorry about the Palestinians. I do, but the way that you're talking about them, the way that you're enabling them, the way that you're defending their worst behaviors, is only going to lead to more suffering.

Like, hey, I get that you feel sorry for these immigrants, but do you realize how much cruelty you are enabling to your own working-class neighbors who now, as a result of your open border, will never be able to afford a home in the neighborhood they live in and that you live in when they come to clean your house?

Ungar-Sargon makes a good point. 

Let's be honest: for starters, social media has become a veritable cesspool — on both sides of the political divide. Left-wingers regular call conservatives demeaning names, while many on our side return the favor, or take the lead. We've even reached the point where, when a conservative dares to objectively weigh in on tariffs, for example, and the fundamentals of who pays them, he or she is sure to torched by MAGA Republicans with similar ad hominem attacks. (Trust me; it happens regularly.)

To a lesser degree, we see the same thing occurring in Congress, while media pundits on both sides of the divide are often off the charts.

Will any of the above change, anytime soon? Don't bet on it.