Posted on 06/21/2019 4:57:01 PM PDT by SJackson
A far-left group backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is supporting a political newcomer to unseat a 30-year Democratic New York congressman who called out Rep. Ilhan Omar over anti-Semitism.
Justice Democrats, a group that initially recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run against former Rep. Joe Crowley, is targeting Rep. Eliot Engel.
REP. COLLINS ON AOC'S 'APPALLING' CRITICISM OF BORDER FACILITIES: IT'S EITHER 'BLISSFUL IGNORANCE' OR ANTI-SEMITISM
The candidacy of Jamaal Bowman, a 43-year-old public middle school teacher, was put forward by Justice Democrats in a continued effort to elect more progressive Democrats to Congress, the New York Times reported. House Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., listens during a committee hearing on Kosovo's wartime victims, Tuesday April 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., listens during a committee hearing on Kosovo's wartime victims, Tuesday April 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)
Yet Engel isn’t the moderate Democrat that his critics claim to be. He co-sponsored a Medicare-for-all plan and even joined Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive colleagues in introducing the Green New Deal, a radical overhaul of the economy in a bid to combat climate change. He has also voted with Ocasio-Cortez 96 percent of the time so far.
The source of frustration for the progressive is likely due to Engel’s rather hawkish views on foreign policy, including voting for the Iraq War in 2002, though he criticized the war in later years.
Engel, who is Jewish, has also angered far-left block of the party after he openly criticized Omar after the Minnesota Democrat said that “the political influence in this country that says it is OK to push for allegiance to a foreign country,” referring to Israel, which many perceived as anti-Semitic comments.
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Just another Jewish hypnotist.
Keep it up, Alexandria.
Keep on burning your own Liberal bridges, biting the hands that got you where you are now. Comeuppance is packing it’s bags as we speak.
She will probably face opposition in the next primary. I cannot imagine many of her constituents were happy with the whole Amazon fiasco and on top of that, the turn-out was ridiculously low when she won. However, she will have a lot of money to fight back with.
Engel is dumber than a box of rocks.
While his replacement is likely worse, he is no loss.
I love watching the left eat their own. Civil discourse is not available on the left. The more they do this the better to prove to normal people who are still voting Democrat that the party of AOC is insanity.
While the Democrats clean out their deadwood, Republicans keep re-electing people who want to meet them halfway on destroying the country.
I want to see this idiot go after Hillary and get Arkancided.
I want to see this idiot go after Hillary and get Arkancided.
She IS being primaried and a GOP candidate has even arisen to run against her, should she win the primary...which she may not.
Why is everything a headline with this chick?
AOC and Omar are done for. The old ladies in the DNC will make sure they do not get re-elected. Just for spite.
I believe the MSM KNOWS she is a controllable intellectual MIDGET and if they can convince the public that she's "special" then they have yet another "controllable political puppet."
Hasn’t that kid ever heard of quid pro quo?
The best hope for 2020, is for the Democrats to implode with factional infighting.
Jews contribute a lot of the Democrats party finances and organizers, and AOC seems to be on a mission to alienate them.
One term, and henceforth a political pariah. It’s pretty much engraved in stone. She’s just so into being the flavor of the month, she won’t see it coming.
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