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Originally Posted by mrnyc
the orthodox trump vote increased, they bought what he was selling, but those neighborhoods have always been republican president voters.
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Hasidic voters vote for whomever their religious leaders tell them to vote for. They definitely voted Dem for POTUS until recently, and their local/state representation is Dem. But they voted very, very Trumpist, in both 2016 and 2020.
Modern Orthodox, it's probably more of a mixed picture, as they're not voting as a collective. I don't think the traditional Orthodox enclaves, such as Five Towns, Kew Garden Hills and Teaneck, voted GOP pre-Trump. But it's hard to get a clear picture, because all these enclaves have shifted from secular to Orthodox over time, so how do you parse out the Orthodox vote? Five Towns has been mostly Jewish for 60 years, but mostly Orthodox for maybe 20.