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Plurality of Israelis prefer Trump rerun to second Biden term

Some 72% of those who voted for parties in Israel’s coalition government supported Trump over Biden, while 55% of those who voted for opposition parties preferred Biden.

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Former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and U.S. President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2020. Source: Trump campaign via Facebook/Biden Campaign via Facebook.

Some 44% of Israelis want former President Donald Trump to win November’s election, compared to 30% who would prefer current U.S. President Joe Biden to secure a second term, according to a Channel 12 poll published on Tuesday evening.

And 26% of respondents said they did not know whom they wanted elected.

Breaking the figures down, 72% of respondents who voted for parties in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition said they preferred Trump, while 8% chose Biden. By contrast, 55% of respondents who cast a ballot for parties in the Israeli opposition preferred Biden, compared to 23% for Trump.

The poll of 504 Israelis had a maximum sampling error of 4.4 percentage points.

Trump and Biden clinched the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations, respectively, in primaries earlier on Tuesday, setting up a rematch of the 2020 election.

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