Rep. Jamal Bowman Unseated
[guest post by Dana]
New York Democratic primary results:
George Latimer has unseated Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District, Decision Desk HQ projects, delivering a stinging blow to progressives in what has been the party’s most divisive primary of the cycle.
Latimer, a Westchester County executive, defeated Bowman in a fierce contest that became a proxy battle between differing ideological factions of the Democratic Party, with the pivotal issue separating the candidates being their stances toward Israel amid the country’s ongoing war with Palestinian militant group Hamas.
If you recall, Bowman referred to claims of Hamas’ use of rape and other sexual violence against Israeli women on Oct. 7th “propaganda” and “lies.”
And just yesterday, in a big move, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came out to rally the troops on behalf of Bowman. Apparently, despite her popularity, she couldn’t get him across the finish line.
United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) pic.twitter.com/ZYo41we92u
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Dana (05d5ce) — 6/25/2024 @ 6:49 pmBoebert wins her contest. There must be a conservation law.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 7:08 pmAs I’ve pointed out, Bowman won in 2020 in a very poor Bronx district. After the remap, he won again with no serious opposition in a much wealthier, much whiter district. That didn’t work when the spotlight was on him.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 7:11 pm“Dems tame their extremes. The Republicans surrender to them.”
SamG (4e6c22) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:26 pmMeh, Boebert.
Paul Montagu (d52d7d) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:26 pmThe Bowman-Latimer race became the most expensive House race ever-AIPAC’s super PAC United Democracy Project dumped $14M in anti-Bowman advertising, with a total of $24M being spent in the campaign.
Rip Murdock (c27dcc) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:36 pmThe House is the chamber where the members don’t have a long enough term for voters to forget the stupid things they say.
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:49 pmAIPAC/UDP spent $9.9M against Bowman and $4.8M in support of Latimer.
Rip Murdock (c27dcc) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:50 pmI look forward to asset’s and NJRob’s irrefutable assertions that this proves Democrat voters are leftists.
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:50 pm“Dems tame their extremes. The Republicans surrender to them.”
SamG (4e6c22) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:26 pm
As we saw in the 2022 election, Democrats can also tame the Republican extremes. 😛
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:51 pmAnd by the way, in case it needs to be said, this is a great result. Let’s hope there will be more like it.
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:52 pmI look forward to asset’s and NJRob’s irrefutable assertions that this proves Democrat voters are leftists.
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:50 pm
Asset will say that Bowman was defeated by the corporatist, donor-class, non-left wing of the Democrat Pary.
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 8:53 pm@12. Oh he’ll definitely say that. But hasn’t he been telling us that AOC is the future of the party, the near future at that? That she’ll be POTUS in ’28? How does that comport with one of her Squad co-members getting his Hamas-loving leftist a@@ kicked by 20 points in a primary (i.e., Democrat base) election?
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:12 pmhasn’t he been telling us that AOC is the future of the party, the near future at that?
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:12 pm
He’ll say her magnificence just can’t be conferred on another person.
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:31 pmNow you’re making asset sound silly.
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:38 pmBut back to serious for a second, his claim has been that left-wing populism, not just AOC personally, is the direction of the Dem Party.
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:43 pmNow you’re making asset sound silly.
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:38 pm
You’re right. I should let him speak for himself.
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:45 pmlurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:43 pm
He’s the mirror image of good old DCSCA, who maintained the right-wing populism was the direction of the Republican Party.
Unfortunately, DCSCA was correct.
And yet, he liked Nikki Haley. Holy inconsistency!
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:48 pmHe’s of course welcome to speak for himself, but I wasn’t right. I was kidding. Other than his civility, which I appreciate, I don’t take a word he says seriously.
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:54 pmAnd here’s a Republican extremist going down in today’s primary:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13569043/donald-trump-utah-senate-primary-election-candidate-mitt-romney.html
Love it!
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:56 pmnorcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:56 pm
And this is a bigger deal, because it’s the Senate, and the Republican is guaranteed to win in the general election. Hopefully this guy follows in Romney’s footsteps.
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:57 pmlurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:54 pm
He is civil, and he’s for the eradication of Hamas. Credit where credit is due.
norcal (6ce905) — 6/25/2024 @ 9:59 pmThe House is the chamber where the members don’t have a long enough term for voters to forget the stupid things they say.
Rep Hank Johnson (D-GA) is still there after asking if Guam was going to tip over.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 10:02 pm“Dems tame their extremes. The Republicans surrender to them.”
I really think SamG should take a look at FDR’s first term. NiRA, indeed.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 10:04 pmBoebert may have won, but Trump’s buddy in CO-5 lost.
Trump-backed Colorado GOP chair loses House primary
Much more here:
It wasn’t even close (66%-34%).
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 10:16 pmSo I guess the GOP is taming extremes in places too.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 10:17 pmUtah’s governor also held off a challenge from the Right.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 10:20 pmSherri Biggs won her contest in SC against the Trump-endorsed Mark Burns
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sheri-biggs-wins-south-carolina-gop-primary-runoff-election-succeed-rep-duncan
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 10:25 pmRick Wilson:
lurker (c23034) — 6/25/2024 @ 10:50 pmI thought the Squad was four women of choler, one of who hides her hair and another without any.
nk (421c01) — 6/26/2024 @ 4:41 am@30. Tempting though it may be to believe that poseurs like Bowman and Cori Bush are just sparkling leftist a-holes, they have in fact been granted permission to identify by the appellation “Squad,” with all the rights and privileges appurtenant thereto.
lurker (c23034) — 6/26/2024 @ 6:36 am@24 That was then, this is now. I think you’d agree that the parties and the US are nothing like we were in the Thirties, Eighties, or even the Aughts.
Fact remains: the extremes on the left have little/no power in the Democratic Party, while the extremes on the right are in control of the Republican Party.
Sam G (87ab56) — 6/26/2024 @ 7:44 amAnother win for Team Normal:
Republican Jeff Hurd beats election denier boosted by Democrats in race for Boebert seat
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/26/2024 @ 7:49 amFact remains: the extremes on the left have little/no power in the Democratic Party, while the extremes on the right are in control of the Republican Party.
The House Freedom Caucus is splitting. Numerous Trump-backed candidates lost to establishment candidates. Let me know when the Democrat House members stop defending their antisemites and militant socialists.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/26/2024 @ 7:52 amhttps://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jun/25/bowman-falls-in-house-primary-overtaken-by-flood-o/
At least the NY Times got around to changing the headline after getting called out for their racism.
Too bad for them, the internet is forever.
NJRob (609f80) — 6/26/2024 @ 9:29 amKevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 7:11 pm
That’s not so.
While its Congressman, Elliot Engel career originated in the Bronx, his Congressional district, to which he was originally elected in 1988, the district it gradually changed so that more and more of it was outside the city and almost all of it was in Westchester and only some 10% was in the Bronx. It didn’t change terribly much in 2022 and in 20024. This year it was perhaps a bit more favorable to Bowman than in 2022 (a lawsuit caused further redistricting)
Elliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was defeated for inattention and age two year after Joseph Crowley lost his race to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 6/26/2024 @ 2:31 pmKevin M (a9545f) — 6/25/2024 @ 7:08 pm
She changed districts and ran for a seat (next number, but across the state) in which a more moderate Republican retired, and won a plurality n a crowded field.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 6/26/2024 @ 2:36 pm30. nk (421c01) — 6/26/2024 @ 4:41 am
All the remaining members of the Squad are female, and I think there were now seven.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 6/26/2024 @ 2:38 pmBowman was leading in early returns (which came from the Bronx) in wich he got some 82% of the vote. Overall, Lattimore won 58% which means he got over 60% in Westchester. There was also a lot of early voting by members of Jewish congregations and other opponents of Bowman.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 6/26/2024 @ 2:42 pmCori Bush is next on August 7 and possibly Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, who nearly lost her primary 2 years ago and is now in a rematch.
Sammy Finkelman (e4ef09) — 6/26/2024 @ 2:43 pmThe problem with this kind of activist congressperson is that their district suffers since they step on so many toes. Unable to compromise they are also unable to bargain. BTW, this also goes for the MTGs of the world. If the bulk of your party doesn’t want to help you keep your seat, you aren’t getting that senior center you wanted the earmark for.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/26/2024 @ 4:30 pmBowman is now blaming AIPAC for his loss. If not for that Jewish money, etc.
Kevin M (a9545f) — 6/26/2024 @ 9:42 pmKevin,
so did the NY Times as I linked above.
NJRob (917499) — 6/27/2024 @ 5:49 amAbout 9% of Bowman’s district was Jewish but turnout by Jews was much higher so that Jewish people amounted to over 20% of the vote. There was an organized campaign to turn out that vote. One organization was called Westchester Unites.
Earlier, in Pennsylvania there was a campaign led by something called Pennsylvania Unites to turn out Jewish voters (not for any candidate, but just to turn out) because the Pennsylvania Presidential primary was scheduled for the first day of Passover. This would never happen in New York State (the primary would be rescheduled and also if it took place the day before, if not for the voters then for the candidates and poll watchers) but Pennsylvania is not so sensitive, but now there is a lot of absentee voting, and in Pennsylvania an absentee voting can also be filled in in person at the county election office.
They targeted 38,000 likely Jewish voters in Pennsylvania for the presidential primary, sending 155,000 pieces of mail, 43.000 text messages and lots of digital advertising and found that 81% of their targeted voters turned in their mail ballots by the deadline (but not much ahead of broader population in the state. which was 77.5%)
Source: A New York Daily News op-ed piece by Maury Litwack who is the founder of something called Teach Action Fund.
In the New York Bowman primary, where mail in balloting is less common, he first targeted people to re-enroll in the Democratic Party in order to vote in the primary. The deadline for switching parties in New York State used to be before the previous year’s November election, but now it s-=is February 14. They got 2,000 voters to change their party enrollment which was 15% of the targeted voters (so over 13,000 were targeted) and their goal had been only 10%. In other re-enrollment campaigns around the country a good result might be considered 2%.
They also wanted to try to get their targeted voters to cast mail-in ballots. They determined that 38% of Westchester ballot requests came from Jewish voters – a rate almost 5 times the rate of non-Jewish (non targeted) voters.
They also got 125 synagogue communities to try to get their members to vote and at he earliest opportunity. They didn’t care about Shabbat because they were driving voters to vote on the first day of early voting which was Saturday. (they couldn’t wait until Sunday? And there was a whole week of it – 9 days including the next Saturday and Sunday. Of course many of them were Reform.)
They had more than 200 volunteers who knocked on doors, made phone calls, had tables at events and “marshalled personal networks” (that would seem to mean contacted people they knew personally).
They sent out 76,000 pieces of mail and 102,752 text messages and had volunteers make more than 50,000 calls and knocked on 12,500 doors.
Sammy FInkelman (e4ef09) — 6/27/2024 @ 3:09 pm