Before the global conflict took the world’s center stage, Michelle Terris said she noticed a shift in public opinion toward Jewish Americans. As an advocate of the Jews for Trump Coalition in 2016, she founded her own organization in 2018 focused on steering the Jewish vote away from the Democratic Party and toward Republican leaders.

The Republican National Convention culminates Thursday with former President Donald Trump expected to accept the party’s presidential nomination, achieving a comeback four years in the making and anticipated even more in the past week in light of Saturday’s assassination attempt.

With the work of nominating the party’s presidential ticket done, the topic of conversation on the floor at the RNC has shifted to slowly percolating problems on the other side of the political aisle,