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Bowman loses New York primary in blow to progressives
(thehill.com)
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Anybody following this able to give a balanced summary? I find The Hill to tend right-leaning and don't much trust their analysis.
The Hill seems to be placing the defeat of Bowman on his stance against the genocide in Palestine, which is becoming a sort of dog-whistle saying, "stand against the invasion of Palestine, and this is what happens to you." It may in this case be true; I can believe it, but I don't trust The Hill to not be constructing a narrative.
AIPAc spent like 14 million against him.
I think it I saw an article about how this was the most expensive primary for the House.
So yeah, because of his stance on Palestine (which was "genocide bad") Israel interfered in our election.
But Schumer, Harrison, and Biden take more AIPAC money that pretty much anyone else, so they're going to say this proves voters don't want progress and love genocide.or some other crazy shit.
Our system is broken and abused, and a D by someone's name clearly isn't enough anymore.
This is all right, I’ll just add that Bowman was among the first to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, basically right after Oct 7th happened. A number of large progressive Dems have rallied to his side (including Bernie and AOC this past weekend), which clearly wasn’t enough.
This was also a D primary, so everyone had a D by their name.
Not everyone was a D, at least not the voters. There was a massive push to reregister a lot of Republicans and Independents as Democrats.