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☆ How vulnerable is 'The Squad?' What to watch as several progressives battle a wave of pro-Israel money in the next several months
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

In the next several months, "The Squad" will face its biggest electoral test yet. AdvertisementAfter spending big in Democratic primaries in 2022, pro-Israel groups are again working to defeat several Squad members by electing more moderate, pro-Israel Democrats in their place. Other pro-Israel groups, including Democratic Majority for Israel, are also expected to spend significant sums of money. Several Squad members now face not just well-funded primary challengers, but significant personal scandals that could cost them with former supporters. AdvertisementHowever not all Squad members are endangered, and several of them are expected to cruise to reelection as the group faces primaries across 7 states between now and September.

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☆ Opinion | The War in Gaza Is Splintering the Democratic Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

Should a few members of the Squad lose their primaries, the blow to Democratic unity could be severe. “And they’ll either stay at home or they’ll go to a third party.”Already, there are signs that the party is fracturing over Israel. Advocates for the freedom and safety of Palestinians, horror-struck by more than 10,000 civilian deaths in Gaza, believe that the Democratic Party is giving its approval to atrocities. These big-footed donors, who are overwhelmingly targeting representatives of color, are going to exacerbate the fissures in the Democratic Party. Diana Lovett, a Democratic Party district leader who held a fund-raiser for Bowman last year, said polarization over the congressman was tearing apart local Democrats.

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