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"Alarming": GOP quietly funnels millions into Democratic primaries to wipe out progressives
msn.com ^ | 8/8/22 | Igor Derysh

Posted on 08/08/2022 6:22:37 AM PDT by cotton1706

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has spent more than $24 million to defeat progressive candidates in this year's Democratic primaries.

The United Democracy Project (UDP), an AIPAC-affiliated super PAC, has already spent $24.2 million on Democratic primaries this cycle, including millions that it raised from top Republican megadonors like Paul Singer and Bernard Marcus. The money has helped AIPAC-backed candidates wipe out progressives in primaries in Michigan, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, California and Ohio.

UDP and other pro-Israel groups tied to AIPAC – Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), Urban Empowerment Action PAC and Pro-Israel America PAC — spent more than $10 million combined in three Michigan primaries, The Intercept reported, to defeat progressive candidates, including last week's loss for Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., who has been called the most progressive Jewish member of the House.

"I'm really Jewish," Levin, a former synagogue president, told MSNBC last week. "But AIPAC can't stand the idea that I am the clearest, strongest Jewish voice in Congress standing for a simple proposition: that there is no way to have a secure, democratic homeland for the Jewish people unless we achieve the political and human rights of the Palestinian people."

UDP spent more than $4 million on ads opposing Levin and backing his opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., after they both opted to run in the state's 11th District following redistricting. Stevens on Tuesday defeated Levin, 60-40.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Maryland; US: Michigan; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania; US: Texas
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To: Ann Archy
ALL DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL.

And half of republicans apparently...

41 posted on 08/08/2022 8:59:44 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: cotton1706

The Democrats have a viable strategy that depending on where you live, you’re better off registering as a member of the opposition party to vote for the weaker candidate in the primary and then vote against them in the general election.


42 posted on 08/08/2022 9:03:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: jjotto

AIPAC is not pro-American group. Their goal is a ‘Jewish’ version of America’s sick perverted mass media culture. Don’t be fooled.

that’s right. AIPAC is not a Republican group. another fake media lie and a smear of AIPAC.


43 posted on 08/08/2022 9:12:09 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: wetgundog

FWLIW I am a proud member of the LGBFJB community.


44 posted on 08/08/2022 9:26:26 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 1Old Pro

I don’t see that at all. This is precisely why the R voter registrations are growing in FL, NV, PA, AZ, and NC relative to Ds. D registration growth has utterly stopped except for CA, OR, DEL, and maybe IL though we can’t track a couple of states cuz they don’t register by party.

They “look” like they are leading cuz the media gives them all the attention, but so far D turnout is trailing Rs in almost every primary so far.


45 posted on 08/08/2022 9:28:33 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: cotton1706
"The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)" is not the GOP.

Dishonest headline. Must be MSM.

46 posted on 08/08/2022 10:14:29 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: LS

Believe me, I hope you’re right.


47 posted on 08/08/2022 10:45:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: marktwain

You’re right. He had this to say “unless we achieve the political and human rights of the Palestinian people”


48 posted on 08/08/2022 12:47:13 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Paperpusher

It was John Brennan of the CIA I was thinking about, not the head of the FBI, some of them have likely been/are communist too.

https://spectator.org/john-brennans-president-remembering-comrade-gus-hall/


49 posted on 08/11/2022 3:25:13 AM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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