Tom Cotton Justifies Trump Blaming Jewish Voters For His Potential Election Loss

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) justified former President Donald Trump’s remarks blaming Jewish voters ahead of a potential election loss.

“Donald Trump has been saying things like this for at least 11 months, since the Oct. 7 attacks,” Cotton told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday on “State of the Union.” “The point he’s been making all along is that any Jewish voter, Christian voter, any other kind of voter who cares about Israel, who cares about a relationship with Israel, should not vote for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.”

Cotton’s remarks come days after Trump claimed at an event against antisemitism on Thursday that Jewish voters didn’t treat him “properly” and that those who vote for Harris in the upcoming election need to get their “head examined.”

In Sunday’s show, Tapper pushed back against Cotton’s justification, insisting that this was the first time Trump preemptively blamed Jewish voters in the case that he loses the 2024 presidential election.

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