Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri lost her primary to St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, and an ad blitz funded by a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri Tuesday lost her reelection bid to primary challenger Wesley Bell, a St. Louis County prosecutor, the Associated Press projected. When Bush was elected in 2020, she became the first Black woman to represent Missouri , the first nurse and the first organizer from the Black Lives Matter movement in Congress. The primary race in Missouri 's 1st Congressional District between Bush and Bell was the second most expensive House primary in 2024.
'This level of spending is a testament to the strength of Cori Bush — that one individual former nurse and single mother fighting for working people in her district is such a threat to right-wing interests, corporate power and Republican megadonors, that they have to drag our democracy through the mud to even have a shot at challenging her,' said Usamah Andrabi of Justice Democrats, which has spent roughly $2.4 million to boost Bush.
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