MSNBC host Chris Hayes appeared in charge the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s embarrassing major defeat Tuesday, saying the race would have been a “dead heat” without it.
“[H]aving spent a fair amount of time around members of [C]ongress, a $14 million dollar money bomb is totally bananas and there’s just nothing like it and no candidate anywhere with the ability to deal with it,” Hayes wrote on X, referencing AIPAC placing a reported $14.5 million into the race to take away Bowman, a far-left Israel critic, from workplace in New York’s sixteenth Congressional District.
The race was shortly referred to as for Democratic challenger George Latimer, with outcomes exhibiting a double-digit lead early Wednesday morning, a uncommon and lopsided rebuke of an incumbent by his personal celebration voters.
Bowman has been outspoken about his assist for Palestinians amid the war in Gaza and has charged that Israel is committing genocide within the area. In his marketing campaign, Latimer argued that Bowman had misplaced contact with constituents in his district, and Semafor’s Benjy Sarlin famous to Hayes that AIPAC had centered on the race partially due to Bowman’s polling weaknesses going into this 12 months, corresponding to over his embarrassing fire alarm pulling incident.
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MSNBC host claimed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which supported Westchester County government George Latimer over Jamaal Bowman for Congress, was the deciding issue within the race. (Getty Images)
“I think w/o AIPAC it’s probably a dead heat of a race and all the motivating factors you note are real and still very much at play,” Hayes wrote to Sarlin.
Hayes’ take got here in for swift criticism, as critics famous Bowman’s polling woes had been obvious months in the past.
“Bowman was down 17 points before AIPAC ever aired an ad in this race,” Tablet’s Noam Blum wrote to Hayes.
“AIPAC could never exist and enough decent human beings still live in Westchester County and the Bronx to be utterly horrified about Jamaal Bowman laughing and mocking off the GoPro’d rapes of women and slaughtering of infants as ‘lies’ and ‘propaganda.’ He did it to himself,” National Review’s Jeff Blehar added.
Bowman’s loss Tuesday night time to Latimer made him the primary House member of both celebration to be defeated by a major challenger thus far within the 2024 election cycle. Bowman may even be the primary member of the far-left “Squad” to lose his seat after Latimer grabbed the Democratic nomination from him.
Bowman attacked AIPAC a number of instances on the marketing campaign path, saying at a rally on Saturday that he would defeat the group. AIPAC has turn into a bogeyman to anti-Israel progressives, who accuse it of holding an excessive amount of affect over politicians.
“We are going to show f—— AIPAC, the power of the motherf—— South Bronx!” Bowman said at the rally, which was held exterior the congressional district’s boundaries. The sixteenth district doesn’t embody the South Bronx.
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Bowman has been outspoken about his assist for Palestinians amid the battle in Gaza and has charged that Israel is committing genocide within the area. In his marketing campaign, Latimer argued that Bowman had misplaced contact together with his personal district. (Getty Images)
On Tuesday night time, Bowman apologized for “sometimes using foul language” however stated that “we should be outraged when a super PAC of dark money can spend $20 million to brainwash people into believing something that isn’t true. We should be outraged about that.”
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Bowman and Latimer’s campaigns didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox News Digital.
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.