Progressive primary from AIPAC Democrat Shri Thanedar supported

The progressive group This contributed to the fact that the squad wants to rebuild after two members of 30 million US dollars were spent on the expenditure of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

On Monday, the judicial democrats supported the Rep. Donavan McKinney in Michigan in the Democratic area code in 2026 against Detroits Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich. – The group’s first primary challenge since AIPAC’s rush.

Thanedar, who was first elected to the congress in 2022, is a multimillionaire with the support of two of the largest sources for external expenses for US elections: Pro Israel lobby groups and the cryptocurrency industry.

Three political committees associated with the AIPAC spent 2.3 million US dollars against Thanedar’s challengers in the democratic area code last year. AIPAC previously borrowed Thanedar in 2022, but her relationship became closer after going to Israel on one of the group’s congress junets.

As part of his campaign start, McKinney announced that he brings the representation of the working class into the congress and criticizes Thanedar to use tax money to finance his campaign costs and neglect his voters.

“I am not running for the congress because I am a millionaire or billionaire. I run because I am not,” said 32-year-old McKinney in a press release in which he announced his campaign start. “I run because our community deserves to have someone against the Trump Musk government who knows our fights.”

In a campaign video that accompanies the start, McKinney said that the voters in the 13th congress district deserved a democratic party that headed the fight against billionaire selites and corporate pacs. McKinney attacked Thanedar because he had bought his seat in the congress and “more with Donald Trump and Elon Musk than people together”. (Thanedar did not answer immediately when asked for comment.)

The main campaign is the first primary challenge against a party that has been launched by Justice Democrats since 2021, and his first efforts since the loss of representatives Jamaal Bowman, Dn.Y., and Cori Bush, D-Mo.

In an explanation, the judicial democrats found that the support for Democrats remains in the congress, while voters are looking for candidates who fight harder than the people they see in office.

“The last election cycle focused on justice democrats on their resources on the protection of our incumbents against the risk of AIPAC and other right-wing Lobbies, who spend $ 100 million for our elections,” said spokesman Usamah Andrabi in the press release on Monday.

“As a result of their oversized editions, we lost two of the most working class of the congress in the most expensive democratic primary primary, but beaten in every second group of troops,” he said. “These losses have only fueled our mission to expand our block in the congress and to choose more masters of the working class in Washington.”