Are Foreign Governments Spending Millions to Sink Progressive Candidates?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Guest Interview: Rachel Bitecofer, PhD, author of the new book, Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at their Own Game. So, get ready: it’s coming this fall. And unless the administration acts quickly, there will be nothing they can do about it. Gas at $6 a gallon could easily throw the election to Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:25.2 | We've got a lot on the program today. |
| 0:27.9 | Taylor Swift went to Facebook and posted a thing saying, hey, it's Super Tuesday Tuesday be sure to get out there and vote |
| 0:34.4 | she didn't you know plug any particular candidate and as soon as she did this |
| 0:38.6 | apparently Facebook and Instagram went down. I don't know what's going on here. |
| 0:45.0 | So it looks like the Israel America Political Action Committee, |
| 0:50.0 | A-Pack, well the headline over at Politico, is AIPAC uncork's 100 million dollar war chest to sink progressive |
| 0:58.0 | candidates. |
| 1:00.0 | Let that sink in. This is from a story by Elena Schneider and Melanie Mason. A |
| 1:07.8 | California Democrat running for Representative Katie Porter's seat suddenly |
| 1:11.0 | became the target of an unexpected barrage of negative |
| 1:14.2 | ads from the nation's Premier Pro Israel group this year. So he emailed a |
| 1:18.2 | former Michigan representative and he Levin for advice. Levin was ousted from |
| 1:22.4 | his house seat in 2022 after the American |
| 1:25.6 | Israel Public Affairs Committee, excuse me, I call it Public |
| 1:29.7 | Affairs Committee, spent four million dollars against him. |
| 1:33.0 | Levin was one of a handful of Democrats targeted by AIPAC last cycle |
| 1:37.0 | when the group went after a range of progressive candidates in mostly open house primaries |
| 1:42.3 | over their criticism of Israel. |
| 1:46.3 | Most candidates won't be able to survive that spending barrage leaven said in an interview |
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