The onslaught by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and allied groups has made good on a warning delivered to lawmakers like Mr.
Now, in barely a month, an AIPAC-affiliated super PAC has spent $14.5 million — up to $17,000 an hour — on the race, filling television screens, stuffing mailboxes and clogging phone lines with caustic attacks.
With days to go, the expenditures have already eclipsed what any interest group has ever spent on a single House race.
Pro-Israel groups are using the same approach elsewhere, most notably in an August primary in St. Louis.
AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project, has already spent $1.5 million there to take out Representative Cori Bush, who is a Black member of the House’s left-wing “squad” like Mr.
Persons:
Jamaal Bowman, Bowman, St . Louis, AIPAC’s, Cori Bush
Organizations:
Israel, Democratic, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, United Democracy
Locations:
New York City, Israel, St .
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