INTERVIEW: Cori Bush Talks Running For Congress, AIPAC, St. Louis, Defeating The Machine + More
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Today on The Breakfast Club, Cori Bush Talks Running For Congress, AIPAC, St. Louis, Defeating The Machine. Listen For More!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Hold on. |
| 0:20.1 | Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all's done. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envi. Just hilarious. Shalomaine the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lawn LaRose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. She's back. |
| 0:21.4 | Congresswoman from Missouri, |
| 0:22.2 | ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:23.2 | Corey with her eye. |
| 0:23.8 | Bush. |
| 0:24.5 | Welcome. |
| 0:23.2 | How you feel? is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. She's back. Congresswoman from Missouri, ladies and gentlemen, Corey with her eye. |
| 0:26.3 | Welcome. How are you feeling this morning? Oh, I'm amazing. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you. I'm feeling so good. I'm so glad to be here today with you all again. |
| 0:33.4 | What made you want to get back into this fight, Corey? |
| 0:39.6 | So first of all, I wasn't ready to leave. And I should not have lost my seat. |
| 0:41.6 | I should still be there right now. |
| 0:43.6 | They spent a lot of money to beat you. |
| 0:47.1 | They spent $15 million to beat me. |
| 0:50.2 | And for context, it only cost about $1 million. |
| 0:53.9 | This race costs anywhere from $1 to $2 million to win and run. |
| 0:54.4 | I mean, to run and win. So for for them to spend 15 million to give me out and only one and they only won by |
| 0:59.6 | five points they they couldn't even get me by double digits like it took that much and when I beat |
| 1:05.4 | the person that my predecessor their family had been in that had held that seat for 52 years. Wow. I beat them with $1 million. Wow. So that's just how hard it was for them to get me out. And when you say them, he was APAC funded, right? He was totally APAC funded, but big crypto and big real estate, they came in to help, but it was mostly APAC. Why, though? Like, why did they need to spend so much money to take you up? So, first of all, when the insurrection happened, it was my third day in office. We didn't even have, like, water in the office yet. Like, I didn't have a panic button. But barricaded in my office, and I mean, barricaded. Like, I said, you know, like, if these folks come down the hallway, if they come, if they come for me, because my name is on this door, if they come for me, like, we bang it to the end. Like, I meant I was going to fight these people if they came for me and my team. But I sat there so pissed off that I introduced my first piece of legislation to investigate |
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