Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a vocal Israel critic and ‘squad’ member, loses primary

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jamaal-bowman-george-latimer-ny-house-primary-results-rcna158487

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  1. Bowman was in trouble the moment he said Twitter nonsense about October 7th not having any sexual violence out loud. He proceeded to run a *terrible* campaign, one of the worst in recent memory.

    This was expected.

  2. Tonight is such a perfect encapsulation of both parties currently.

    On the Republican side, extreme MAGA insurrectionist Lauren Boebert is once again nominated by Republican voters.

    Meanwhile, a Democratic Member that had numerous scandals and was considered leftist, loses his re-election bid because Democratic voters think he’s too extreme.

    Anyone who tells you that the reason why there’s so much polarization is because Democrats moved too far left, just hold this up as a perfect example for why they’re full of shit.

  3. Watching him chant his own name at his rally was bordering on “please clap” Jeb Bush territory.

  4. Who knew that being anti semitic in a Jewish district would be bad?

  5. Not surprised he got the boot after that fire alarm stunt to delay a vote. That’s some embarrassing shit to have your congressman do.

  6. Bowman won his first primary against an incumbent by 15 points in 2020. He handedly won his primary in 2022 by 30 points. To have a 40 point flip in 2 years is more than just money (altho it 100% did play a role). As a reminder Bowman said the sexual violence against Israelis on October 7th were lies and propaganda in November, and he only apologized for those remarks just like last week.

  7. I wouldn’t read TOO much in this for progressives. The lesson I think is just not to be too vehemently critical of Israel, especially when you’re relying on a lot of Jewish voters. Bowman was uniquely bad and deserved this loss, so I don’t think it’s an indictment on progressives in general. It’s more so a cautionary tale of what might be crossing the line.

  9. >The race in New York’s 16th District between Bowman and Westchester County Executive George Latimer drew more ad spending — $25 million, according to the ad tracking firm AdImpact — than any House primary in history. Nearly $15 million of that spending came from the United Democracy Project, a super PAC linked to the powerful pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which backed Latimer.

    Pretty impressive for an election that would have gone unnoticed by most in a district with 750,000 residents.

  10. Probably should have focused more on constituent services rather than flexing for social media. Many such cases.

  12. A lot of people here not aware that this district was recently redrawn and cut out exactly who you’d think were cut out of the district.

    New York legislators made this district more white, wealthy and conservative. It was a choice.

  13. Likely to see another Squad member go down in their primary in August. Cory Bush is in trouble.

  14. We need to turn out for the democrat who won. We need to see the writing on the wall.

  15. Real shame. His insight into the flat earth and islands tipping over would have been an asset…

    no, he was pretty nuts. stop blaming AIPAC.

  16. He voted against Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, which likely alienated a lot of his constituents.

    His dumbfuck fire alarm stunt probably didn’t bolster his credibility either, particularly as a former school principal.

    He’s not AOC by any stretch.

  18. Turns out that denying the rape of innocent women is not as popular as he expected.

    >“There was propaganda used in the beginning of the siege,” Bowman (D-N.Y.)[ ](https://www.tiktok.com/@amyjvele/video/7302638999976283423)told a Nov. 17 rally of about 50 pro-Palestinian protesters in Westchester, according to a post on TikTok reviewed by POLITICO. “There’s still no evidence of beheaded babies or raped women. But they still keep using that lie [for] propaganda.”

    No, it was not propaganda, Hamas did commit rape. And this is one of the reasons why his district turned on him.

    Rape denialists and rapists (hello, Trump) deserve to lose every single election.

  19. While I agree on a lot of the progressives, Bowman and some of the “Squad” are idiots in that they like the stupid ass MAGAs want to take it too far in different directions. The Squad voting against the infrastructure bill irked the shit out of me. The goal of congressmen should be to help those they serve which by and far the infrastructure bill helps everyone on both sides of the aisle and it should have been voted yes by everyone. And Bowman fucked up by being so harsh on Israel which I agree deserves criticism but so does Hamas which murdered 1000s, the two sides are both in the wrong. Those are the reasons he lost. I don’t want extremists on either side. I want people who want to govern and help those they represent.

  21. Nice. Long live Israel and long live the Biden infrastructure bill.

  23. Not just loses. He was annihilated. Latimer is up almost 20% with more votes to count.

  24. He lost in a landslide by 20+ points— blaming AIPAC would be like blaming the FG kicker when your football team loses by 20. He lost because he took radical positions on Israel and economy that are way out of touch with the district.

    People have been blaming the Jews for their own failures for centuries. The alternative is looking in the mirror and Mr. Bowman is not known for his accountability.

  26. I said this in another subreddit:

    Between the fire alarm thing (and his laughable excuse for doing it) and some of the weird conspiracy stuff he got outed for doing I’m not sad he went down, I just wish it had been to a superior progressive and not some AIPAC chosen moderate stooge

  27. This is the same guy that pulled the fire alarm to delay a vote, right?

  28. People act like the most money ever spent in a primary had nothing to do with him losing.

    Anyone who still thinks we live in a functional democracy when this much can be spent on our elections is delusional.

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