AIPAC gearing up to spend $100M to eliminate “The Squad” (and those like them) from Congress once and for all

Will AIPAC win?

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So far, House Democratic leadership has been quiet about all this. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries—who took more money from the Israel lobby in 2022 than from any other group and is featured prominently on the lobbying group’s website (alongside House Republican leadership)—hasn’t tried to dissuade the primarying of these progressive Democratic incumbents. He could easily publicly disavow such spending and make it clear to candidates that accepting such support is against caucus policy; in 2019, House Democrats made it an official policy to blacklist any Democratic consultant or political group who aided a progressive challenger against a sitting Democratic incumbent ahead of the 2020 elections. But so far Jeffries has only managed to say: “Outside groups are gonna do what outside groups are gonna do. I think House Democrats are going to continue to support each other.”

It’s strange. Sitting quietly by while a Republican-funded outside group lays waste to a popular group of incumbents would invite a host of disastrous risks, and would—crucially—jeopardize Jeffries’s own campaign to retake the House. He certainly can’t be Speaker of the House if AIPAC knocks Democrats out of their races. And it will try: In 2022, AIPAC spent millions on a conservative Democrat to oppose Summer Lee in her 2022 primary race. After failing to knock her out, the group continued to spend against her in the general election, helping her Republican opponent and nearly costing Democrats the seat.
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Jeffries is a fool for aligning with this right-wing group.
 
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Considering how much more socialist younge democrats are becoming, I’m not sure an attempt to bully them out with billionaire money is going to work.

Unless they want to fund some ultra socialist who again would probably be more leaning to taxing the wealth of the people funding them.




Also why does AIPAc care what the public thinks of Israel. If they have both parties under their control, that’s where the power to rein in the decisions lies.
 
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Json said:
Considering how much more socialist younge democrats are becoming, I’m not sure an attempt to bully them out with billionaire money is going to work.

Unless they want to fund some ultra socialist who again would probably be more leaning to taxing the wealth of the people funding them.




Also why does AIPAc care what the public thinks of Israel. If they have both parties under their control, that’s where the power to rein in the decisions lies.
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they need to shape the attitudes of younger voters before the boomers die off
 
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NZA said:
they need to shape the attitudes of younger voters before the boomers die off
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Just seems like a waste of money.

Once they get into office, get your hooks into them.

that Menendez dude was working for Egypt for way less than what AIPAC is paying.
 
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Json said:
Just seems like a waste of money.

Once they get into office, get your hooks into them.

that Menendez dude was working for Egypt for way less than what AIPAC is paying.
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they can try to beat the squad for the short term, but they are facing a demographic problem in the long term. doing the same thing doesnt seem like it will work 20 years from now.
 
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