Guess what: When you spend your entire campaign telling American Jews to go pound sand, they listen.
That, at least, is what available data shows happened to Kamala Harris during her Nov. 5 trouncing at the hands of Donald Trump.
Harris saw support plunge in deep blue New York state and purple Pennsylvania, particularly in counties with high Jewish populations.
The veep was bizarrely committed to taking every possible opportunity to let Jews across the nation know that while she sympathizes with pretty much every other minority group in America, for them she has no time.
Let’s review the tape.
In the closing days of her campaign, she cosigned the slur that Israel is committing genocide at a public rally.
She took the Jewish state and its leadership to task again and again for daring to fight back against the terrorist butchers of Hamas, their masters in Tehran and the other proxy armies the mullahs muster in the region.
For Pete’s sake, she very clearly passed on her best option for a running mate, popular Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, because having a Jew on the ticket would inflame her party’s hard left.
Now, her campaign autopsy shows that Jewish voters don’t like to be blamed for supporting nonexistent genocides or see their political heroes treated like garbage.
An exit poll exclusively obtained by The Post shows that for Jewish voters in Pennsylvania, the Shapiro move was hugely consequential.
Harris won those voters 48%-41% — but if Shapiro had been her veep pick instead of Weirdo Walz, she would have grabbed 53% support of Jewish voters.
And look at New York, where Trump notched up historic gains among key state Jewish voting blocs.
Harris failed to break 50% with Jewish voters upstate and in Long Island across six districts, a formerly reliable Dem constituency, winning only 48% to Trump’s 41%.
With Shapiro on the ticket, that would have soared to 51%-39% in those six spots.
Yes, even with Shapiro, those projected margins in Pennsylvania would not have swung the election for Harris.
But as a sign of where Jewish voters are headed — that is, away from a party they once backed overwhelmingly — it’s powerful.
And Trump’s very Israel-friendly Cabinet picks, like Pete Hegseth at Defense and Sen. Marco Rubio at State, are likely to accelerate that trend.
Not that the damage among traditional Dem voting blocs was restricted to Jews.
Trump made massive inroads among Latinos and major progress among blacks — both groups whose concerns around the economy, the border and social policy Harris simply failed to address.
Contrary to what Democratic poobahs seem to believe, no American owes anyone his or her vote — especially not because they fit some racial/ethnic profile.
Those votes must be earned.
And arrogant dismissal is not the way to do it.
Who’d a thunk?
