MSNBC host Chris Hayes looked as if it would blame the pro-Israel lobbying staff American Israel Community Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for Brandnew York Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s embarrassing number one defeat Tuesday, announcing the race would had been a “dead heat” with out it.
“[H]aving spent a fair amount of time around members of [C]ongress, a $14 million dollar money bomb is totally bananas and there’s just nothing like it and no candidate anywhere with the ability to deal with it,” Hayes wrote on X, referencing AIPAC striking a reported $14.5 million into the race to take away Bowman, a far-left Israel critic, from place of business in Brandnew York’s sixteenth Congressional District.
The race was once briefly known as for Democratic challenger George Latimer, with effects appearing a double-digit supremacy early Wednesday morning, an extraordinary and lopsided scold of an incumbent via his personal birthday party electorate.
Bowman has been outspoken about his help for Palestinians amid the war in Gaza and has charged that Israel is committing genocide within the area. In his marketing campaign, Latimer argued that Bowman had misplaced contact with constituents in his district, and Semafor’s Benjy Sarlin famous to Hayes that AIPAC had centered at the race partly on account of Bowman’s polling weaknesses going into this time, reminiscent of over his embarrassing fire alarm pulling incident.
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MSNBC host claimed that the American Israel Community Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which supported Westchester County govt George Latimer over Jamaal Bowman for Congress, was once the deciding issue within the race. (Getty Photographs)
“I think w/o AIPAC it’s probably a dead heat of a race and all the motivating factors you note are real and still very much at play,” Hayes wrote to Sarlin.
Hayes’ whip got here in for speedy complaint, as critics famous Bowman’s polling woes have been obvious months in the past.
“Bowman was down 17 points before AIPAC ever aired an ad in this race,” Pill’s Noam Blum wrote to Hayes.
“AIPAC could never exist and enough decent human beings still live in Westchester County and the Bronx to be utterly horrified about Jamaal Bowman laughing and mocking off the GoPro’d rapes of women and slaughtering of infants as ‘lies’ and ‘propaganda.’ He did it to himself,” Nationwide Evaluation’s Jeff Blehar added.
Bowman’s loss Tuesday evening to Latimer made him the primary House member of both birthday party to be defeated via a number one challenger up to now within the 2024 election cycle. Bowman may also be the primary member of the far-left “Squad” to lose his seat upcoming Latimer grabbed the Democratic nomination from him.
Bowman attacked AIPAC a couple of instances at the marketing campaign path, announcing at a rally on Saturday that he would defeat the group. AIPAC has turn into a bogeyman to anti-Israel progressives, who accuse it of retaining excess affect over politicians.
“We are going to show f—— AIPAC, the power of the motherf—— South Bronx!” Bowman said at the rally, which was once held outdoor the congressional district’s barriers. The sixteenth district does now not come with the South Bronx.
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Bowman has been outspoken about his help for Palestinians amid the battle in Gaza and has charged that Israel is committing genocide within the area. In his marketing campaign, Latimer argued that Bowman had misplaced contact along with his personal district. (Getty Photographs)
On Tuesday evening, Bowman apologized for “sometimes using foul language” however stated that “we should be outraged when a super PAC of dark money can spend $20 million to brainwash people into believing something that isn’t true. We should be outraged about that.”
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Bowman and Latimer’s campaigns didn’t in an instant reply to a request for remark from Fox News Digital.
Fox Information’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this record.
