'The Squad' Wins Some, Loses Others
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar easily won her primary race on Tuesday in a rematch against an opponent she beat by just a few thousand votes two years ago. While she and other members of The Squad easily held onto their seats in Congress, two of their fellow progressives were ousted amid record spending by pro-Israel groups: Reps —Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri. The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, spent $23 million on the two races alone, helping make them the most expensive House primaries in history. Sophie Hurwitz, reporter at Mother Jones, explains why AIPAC targeted some Squad members, not others.
And in headlines: New federal data showed inflation dropped below 3 percent for the first time since March 2021, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency in response to an outbreak of mpox in 13 African countries, and archival data from NASA’s Insight Lander shows evidence of water on Mars.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, August 15th. I'm Priyanka Ara Bindi. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm Juanita Toliver and this is what a day, the show where we're happy to see |
| 0:12.4 | President Joe Biden still has his trademark. and this is what a day the show where we're happy to see President |
| 0:13.0 | Joe Biden still has his trademark as a viewer. Yes yesterday he told |
| 0:17.2 | influencers that he is looking for a job. Yeesh. Listen, it's rough out here. |
| 0:26.1 | I get it. |
| 0:27.7 | On today's show, Ceasefire Talks resume and cutter today, plus a massive body of water is found on Mars. |
| 0:38.0 | But first, Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar easily won her primary race on Tuesday. |
| 0:43.6 | She faced the same opponent she did two years ago, former Minneapolis City Council member Don |
| 0:48.4 | Samuels. |
| 0:49.4 | In 2022, Omar barely beat him by around 2,500 votes. |
| 0:54.5 | But this year, it wasn't even close. |
| 0:57.4 | She won by more than 13 points or 15,000 votes. |
| 1:01.6 | And it means she's all but guaranteed to keep her seat in Congress for another term in a safe |
| 1:06.4 | Democratic district. Here she is giving her victory speech Tuesday night. |
| 1:09.8 | We run the politics of joy because we know it is joyful to fight for your neighbors. |
| 1:20.0 | We know it is joyful to make sure everybody has access to health care. |
| 1:26.0 | We know it is joyful to make sure housing is a human right. |
| 1:32.0 | We know it is joyful to want to live in a peaceful and equitable world. |
| 1:39.0 | Yes, I love this sentiment. |
| 1:43.4 | It is something that I feel like we're seeing kind of throughout |
| 1:46.5 | Democratic politics in this moment. |
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