Progressive Congress Members in SERIOUS Danger of Losing to AIPAC-Backed Opponents
Channel: The Humanist Report
Date: 2024-04-05

AIPAC vowed to spend $100 million in Democratic primaries against progressive critics of Israel. That spending spree—funded mostly by Republican donors—seems bound to payoff, as multiple progressive congress members are headed for defeat based on certain indicators we’ll look at in this video.

Support their Campaigns:
Cori Bush: https://coribush.org/
Jamaal Bowman: https://www.bowmanforcongress.com/
Ilhan Omar: https://ilhanomar.com/
Summer Lee: https://summerforpa.com/home/

Sources (Cori Bush):
Bush Trailing Bell (The Hill, Feb. 12, 2024): https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4464073-cori-bush-trailing-democratic-primary-challenger-by-22-points-poll/
Bell Touts $600,000 Fundraising Hall (Riverfront Times, Jan. 29, 2024): https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/bell-touts-600k-in-donations-since-pivoting-to-challenge-cori-bush-41762195

Sources (Jamaal Bowman):
Bowman Trailing Latimer (New York Post, April 3, 2024): https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/rep-jamaal-bowman-trails-rival-george-latimer-by-17-points/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
AIPAC is Latimer’s Biggest Donor (The Intercept, Feb. 1, 2024): https://theintercept.com/2024/02/01/george-latimer-aipac-donors-jamaal-bowman/
Bowman Calls Out AIPAC (Mar. 25, 2024): https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1772454179929260104?s=20

Sources (Ilhan Omar):
Omar Tied with Samuels (The Tennessee Star, April 3, 2024): https://tennesseestar.com/elections/poll-shows-potentially-close-race-between-ilhan-omar-and-don-samuels/admin/2024/04/03/
AIPAC Spent Big Against Omar in 2022 (Jewish Insider, Sep. 21, 2022): https://jewishinsider.com/2022/09/don-samuels-ilhan-omar-united-democracy-project-filing/

Sources (Summer Lee):
Lee Has Low Approval Rating (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2023): https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/new-polling-shows-summer-lee-has-low-approval-rating/
AIPAC, DMFI Staying Out of Lee’s Race (Jewish Insider, April 3, 2024): https://jewishinsider.com/2024/04/summer-lee-bhavini-patel-pennsylvania-primary-israel/#:~:text=AIPAC%27s%20super%20PAC%20spent%20more,race%20—%20or%20even%20endorsed%20Patel
Jeff Yass Funded Netanyahu’s Judicial Coup (Haaretz, Mar. 24, 2024): https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-03-24/ty-article/.premium/jeff-yass-billionaire-invested-in-tiktok-and-israels-judicial-coup-top-spender-in-2024/0000018e-70d5-d477-abbf-f7d531d20000#:~:text=Yass%20has%20not%20donated%20to,battle%20of%20the%202024%20cycle
GOP-Funded Moderate PAC Targeting Lee (The Intercept, Mar. 20, 2024): https://theintercept.com/2024/03/20/summer-lee-ads-moderate-pac-gop-jeff-yass/

Additional Sources:
538’s Pollster Ratings (Updated Feb. 22, 2024): https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/
Byron Brown Defeats India Walton with Write-in Campaign (Spectrum News 1, Nov. 19, 2021): https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2021/11/19/india-walton-concedes-buffalo-mayoral-race
Watch Our Previous Coverage of Omar’s Primary (Dec. 1, 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5cLuphZRgA
Watch Our Previous Coverage of Bush’s Primary (Feb. 13, 2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pN3nnVr7CM

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