THE HILL
Cori Bush calls out AIPAC after defeat: ‘I’m coming to tear your kingdom down’
Nick Robertson
August 7, 2024

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) vowed revenge on a top pro-Israel PAC after she lost the primary in her reelection campaign Tuesday. The group boosted her opponent in a tightly contested race, knocking off a second member of the progressive “squad” this cycle. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) super PAC, United Democracy Project, was a top funder of Bush’s opponent, St. Louis County District Attorney Wesley Bell. Bush was harshly criticized for her outspoken criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza. Bush said in a fiery speech after her loss that leaving Congress will only “takes some strings off.” READ MORE

NATIONAL REVIEW Cori Bush’s Pathological Concession Speech Reminds Voters Why She Had to Go Immediately upon her primary defeat at the hands of her own Democratic constituents, outgoing Squad member Cori Bush went to work illustrating the wisdom of her voters’ verdict. In a bizarre concession speech that was equal parts deluded and menacing, Representative Bush (Mo.) promised to continue the fight against Jewish interests that exists mostly in her own head  She had not been beaten, she explained. “All you did was take some of the strings off.”

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