The Democratic Party has secured at least 50 seats in the upper chamber of Congress, with Vice President Kamala Harris’ vote representing the tiebreaker in the 100-member chamber.

Republican share of the Jewish vote rises to 33% in midterms, exit poll shows

By JNS

The Democratic Party has maintained control of the U.S. Senate following a tight victory in the Nevada midterm election, called on Saturday, even as the Republican Party remained projected to flip control of the House of Representatives.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s win in Nevada brought the Democrats to the minimum 50 seats they needed to keep the upper chamber of Congress, with Vice President Kamala Harris’s vote representing the tiebreaker in the 100-member legislature.

A final Senate seat still needs to be determined in Georgia, where Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock will face off against GOP candidate Herschel Walker in a Dec. 6 runoff.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party remained on track to win a slim majority in the House, although it could still take days to receive the final results of several contests in the 435-seat chamber.

The Democrats defied expectations in Tuesday’s midterm elections, staving off the “red wave” that many forecasters had predicted and giving U.S. President Joe Biden a huge boost over the next two years and as he decides whether to run again in 2024.

While a different poll conducted by the liberal Jewish lobby J Street found that Republicans received 25% of the Jewish vote in the 2022 midterm elections, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) tweeted that the poll released by Fox News is the “gold standard” because it is a network exit poll and “more reflective of the national Jewish vote.”

Thirty-three percent of American Jews who participated in Tuesday’s midterm elections voted Republican, up from 30% in the 2020 election and 24% in 2016, an exit poll conducted by Fox News found.

Jews comprised 3% of the American electorate, according to Fox News, which included a question about religion in its exit poll—as opposed to CNN, which did not, except for asking voters whether or not they were white evangelicals.

While a different poll conducted by the liberal Jewish lobby J Street found that Republicans received 25% of the Jewish vote in the 2022 midterms, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) tweeted that the Fox News poll is the “gold standard” because it is a network exit poll and “more reflective of the national Jewish vote.”

“J Street doesn’t like the [Fox News] poll, so they shopped around and paid for a poll they do like. The trends are absolutely clear: Jewish voters are moving towards the GOP—24 percent in 2016, 30 percent in 2020, 33 percent in 2022—and no J Street paid-for poll will change those facts,” RJC National Political Director Sam Markstein said.