This article originally appeared on “>email to nearly 50,000 target Jewish households in Florida sharing a video of past and present Israeli and Jewish community leaders praising Clinton and her commitment to Israel’s security.
The video, a project of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) and its newly-created super PAC “Jews for Progress,” features quotes by former President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Knesset Member and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Senator John McCain.
“I am convinced Secretary Clinton, like her husband, have more than proved their loyalty not only to Rabin and his memory but even more so to Israel’s security and wellbeing,” Rabin wrote, urging undecided voters to watch the video and draw their own conclusions.
Last week, the NJDC sent out its first “>email and on social media and formatted into an audio-version robocall to 110,000 households.
In an“>showed Clinton leading Trump by 43 points among Jewish voters in Florida. But the poll and an internal poll conducted over several weeks showed that Hillary Clinton was underperforming among Jewish voters, even when compared to President Obama’s level of support in 2012.
Modeled after NJDC’s successful 2012 campaign called ““>interview with Jewish Insider last year, NJDC’s chairman Greg Rosenbaum boasted that Florida ended up in the Obama column in 2012 due to a concentrated effort to mobilize Jewish voters in the last weeks of the campaign. An exit poll conducted by pollster Mark Mellman showed an increase of support from 59 to 71 percent – a twelve point shift in seven weeks, which was about 144,000 additional votes. The President’s margin of victory in Florida was less than 1 percent – 70,000 votes
The Clinton campaign and their supporters are hoping that the concentrated efforts among persuadable Jewish voters will bear fruit and prevent Trump from winning Florida, a state he needs to win to become president.
Trump held three rallies across the state on Wednesday and is expected to return before next Tuesday. Clinton, President Obama and Vice President Biden also making GOTV campaign stops over the weekend.
Jewish voters represent 3 to 6 percent of the electorate. Trump is ahead by 0.7 percentage points, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
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