AIPAC said it expects to spend more than $100 million as part of its pledge to unseat lawmakers critical of Israel.
Rep. Cori Bush makes a speech as Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a rally outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2024.The fundraising arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , the nation’s leading pro-Israel lobbying group, successfully helped defeat Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., in a brutal primary race last month — and now it’s targeting progressive Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.
“Super PACs now can just come in and throw millions of dollars into a race,” Ray La Raja, a University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor of political science and co-director of the UMass poll, told. “Typically, the political parties support an incumbent, and they don’t get involved, usually. But these other groups who are sometimes affiliated with the party, not necessarily, can throw in money.”
Seeing incumbents being challenged seriously, much less at all, is atypical, he added, noting that those who are challenged “tend to have some obvious weakness — either personal scandal or a mismatch with the district” — bringing them down. Responding to Bowman’s defeat last week, Bush issued a statement calling out AIPAC as a “threat to democracy.”
“With some six weeks to go and 11% still undecided, this race can go either way, but Bell has achieved a slight advantage,” it added.
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