Cori Bush, a leftwing representative from Missouri, has become the second member of the Democratic party’s progressive “Squad” to be ousted by a mainstream primary challenger this year.
Bush, two-term representative and Black Lives Matter activist who stormed into Congress at the height of the country’s social justice upheaval, was defeated in the party primary on Tuesday by Wesley Bell, a local prosecutor. Bell’s campaign benefited from millions of dollars of support from the conservative pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The margin was 51.2 per cent per cent to 45.6 per cent with more than 95 per cent of votes counted, according to the Associated Press.
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