Summer Lee vs. Bhavini Patel

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

If it doesn’t work in Pittsburgh, their most demographically favorable district, it’s not going to work so AIPAC need to stop targeting women of color with contentious primaries when they are on the losing end of this issue. Summer Lee has condemned Hamas. She has condemned anti-semitism on college campuses. People in her district were smart enough to see the plain truth that criticizing Israel is not anti-semitism, and neither is asking for high moral standards from “the only democracy in the Middle East.” If they go out of their way to make this the central issue in Bush and Bowman’s races, let alone Tlaib’s and Omar’s, AIPAC will guarantee an intact Squad in November.

Agreed, but I think there's a strong case to be made that Bowman's district is less favorable.

Both Bowman and Bush have actually made a lot of recent faux pas that put their seats in play. Lee has been semi-low-key as a Squad member and DMFI never chose to get involved here.

I don't think they ever even polled this district, which says a lot on how much on the party's radar it was.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

If it doesn’t work in Pittsburgh, their most demographically favorable district, it’s not going to work so AIPAC need to stop targeting women of color with contentious primaries when they are on the losing end of this issue. Summer Lee has condemned Hamas. She has condemned anti-semitism on college campuses. People in her district were smart enough to see the plain truth that criticizing Israel is not anti-semitism, and neither is asking for high moral standards from “the only democracy in the Middle East.” If they go out of their way to make this the central issue in Bush and Bowman’s races, let alone Tlaib’s and Omar’s, AIPAC will guarantee an intact Squad in November.

I mean it was an incumbent Squad WOC vs a non-incumbent WOC primary.

I’m committed to advancing progressive issues like advocating for gun violence prevention, fighting for reproductive justice, and creating good-paying union jobs.

Do you think a white union man would had been a better candidate? I suppose a candidate like that could had it easier to get support from anti Squad donors, but it´s not like Patel wasn´t clearly the choice for democrat moderates in this primary.

We're seeing how that's playing out in AOC's district - she's running against a conservadem named Marty Dolan who's getting zero traction.

It's very hard to knock off an incumbent and if it happens twice this year, it's because of unusual circumstances - both Latimer and Bell might have higher name recognition in the districts than the sitting Reps.