Former Florida Rep. Peter Deutsch is a Jewish American Democrat who was a lawmaker in the Sunshine State from 1993 to 2005. On Monday, which is the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, Deutsch announced he would not be supporting the top of his party’s ticket on Election Day. 

“I think that Kamala Harris and the Harris-Biden administration in terms of what they have done and are doing … [and] their policies toward Iran make the world a dramatically less safe place,” Deutsch said. 

Instead, he decided to endorse Trump during a press call organized by the former president’s campaign to commemorate the Hamas attacks on Israel. 

Deutsch said that the “driving force for me to make this decision is what I believe is the most important factor in being president, which is really world peace.”

“I feel very comfortable today publicly announcing that I’m endorsing Donald Trump to be reelected as president,” Deutsch added. 

Hamas, which is a terrorist group backed by Iran, killed 1,200 civilians during its attacks. The year since the attack has seen tensions continue to boil over in the Middle East, with Iran launching a direct missile attack on Israel last week. 

Deutsch said during the call Monday that he believes another Trump term will restore stability in the region. 

“For what I believe is the most important job of the President of the United States, which is trying to retain peace in the world, there is an extraordinarily clear choice that I think every American hopefully will come to the same conclusion that I have: that President Trump should become the next president of the United States,” he said. 

Deutsch is the latest of a slew of current and former Democrats, including longtime environmental lawyer and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Arab American Michigan Mayor Amer Ghalib, who have decided to back Trump. 

Many of them have cited Trump’s foreign policy stances as their decision to back the former president this November. 

“He not only didn’t start any new wars, he took action to de-escalate and prevent wars,” Gabbard said when she endorsed Trump in September. 

Claiming Trump views war “as a last resort,” she hoped he would “walk us back from the brink of nuclear war.” 

Trump has often touted his work in brokering the Abraham Accords in 2020, which normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and between Israel and Bahrain. 

Throughout the course of his 2024 presidential campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, he has often accused her of fueling foreign policies, such as unfreezing billions in sanctions against Iran, that have destabilized Israel and unleashed terror in the Middle East. 

“It is no surprise that Iran desperately wants Kamala Harris to be President because they know as long as she is in power, they can take advantage of America,” Trump said in a statement last week. “When I was President, Iran was in total check. They were starved for cash, fully contained, and desperate to make a deal.”

While Trump says the Biden administration’s policies have empowered Iran to wreak terror against Israel, Harris has argued that she has “my entire career and life supported Israel and the Israeli people.”

“He knows that,” she said during her presidential debate against Trump last month. “He’s trying to again divide and distract from the reality, which is it is very well known that Donald Trump is weak and wrong on national security and foreign policy.”