Did AIPAC accidentally elect the next Squad member?



The most powerful pro-Israel lobby may have accidentally boosted a progressive rising star who has accused the Jewish state of committing genocide in Gaza.

The New Jersey Democrat primary is in dead heat between former Rep. Tom Malinowski and Analilia Mejia, who has secured the backing of prominent Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In the race to replace Mikie Sherrill, who was just elected to serve as New Jersey's governor, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is once again putting its thumb on the scale.

'AIPAC has historically enjoyed a winning streak of ousting anti-Zionist Democrats.'

Malinowski criticized aid to Israel, prompting a multimillion-dollar ad campaign against the Democrat funded by AIPAC.

The campaign hammered Malinowski for his track record on immigration, attempting to frame the Democrat as a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement candidate who approved President Donald Trump's deportation funding in 2019.

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AIPAC likely projected the ad targeting Malinowski would boost pro-Israel Democratic Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way in the overcrowded primary, but polls show they may have massively underestimated Mejia.

AIPAC has historically enjoyed a winning streak of ousting anti-Zionist Democrats, including Squad members like former Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri.

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This time around, the race remains too close to call, with the latest poll results putting Mejia at a razor-thin advantage of less than 1%.

New Jersey's 11th congressional districts used to be staunchly Republican but flipped to a deep-blue district in 2018, when Sherill defeated GOP candidate Jay Webber. Given the district's newly Democratic affiliation, a primary victory for Mejia would likely guarantee her a seat in the House of Representatives.

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Democratic lawmakers urge people to back GOP Rep. Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Republican primary



GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, has become a pariah in the Republican Party and could lose her Aug. 16 primary to Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman. But Cheney is getting political support from a rather unusual source: Democrats.

Democratic Reps. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Tom Malinowski of New Jersey have both appeared in videos calling people to support Cheney during the GOP primary.

Phillips urged people to "please consider temporarily switching parties and voting for Liz Cheney on or by August 16th."

And Malinowski said in a video that "Wyoming Democrats" could place "country over party ... by registering to vote for her [Cheney] in the Republican primary."

Meta indicates that Wyomingites Defending Freedom and Democracy paid to run the ads on social media, though the Big Tech company currently indicates that an ad featuring the video of Phillips is active while an ad featuring the video of Malinowski is inactive.

Cheney voted to impeach Trump last year in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and was later booted from her role as House Republican conference chair. She is one of the two GOP lawmakers serving on the House select committee created to investigate the Jan. 6 episode.

"If the cost of standing up for the Constitution is losing the House seat, then that's a price I'm willing to pay," Cheney said, according to the New York Times. She described the GOP as "very sick," and said that it "is continuing to drive itself in a ditch and I think it’s going to take several cycles if it can be healed."

Cheney told CNN's Jake Tapper last month that irrespective of the outcome of her primary contest, she will "continue to fight hard to ensure Donald Trump is never anywhere close to the Oval Office ever again."

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