I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Wednesday, August 7th, and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update.

A second squad member has lost a primary election.

Missouri Representative Corey Bush was ousted by Democrat challenger St. Louis County

prosecutor Wesley Bell. Bush's defeat marks another blow for House progressives.

The first member of the squad to lose a primary was New York Representative Jamal Bowman

who lost by over 15 points to a more moderate Democrat.

Both Bush and Bowman have been vocal critics of the Jewish state, leading pro-Israel groups

to poor millions into supporting their respective challengers,

which gave a defiant concession speech taking aim at pro-Israel AIPAC.

All you did was take some of the strings off.

But all they did was radicalize me and so now they're being free.

And Pac, I'm coming to tear your kingdom down.

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar,

another squad member, is also facing a primary challenge by fellow Democrat

Don Samuels. That election will take place on August 13th. Terror Group Hamas

has selected a new head of its political bureau following the assassination of Isma Al-Haniya in Tehran last week.

Daily Wire Senior Editor Cabot Phillips has more on the appointment.

On Tuesday, Hamas officials appointed Yaya Sinwar

to the highest drinking position in the terror organization.

Sinwar, a convicted murderer who spent decades in an Israeli prison,

is viewed as less compromising dealings with Israel and closer to Iran than his predecessor.

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