Democrats don’t like The Squad

Politico reports:

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) was defeated in a primary Tuesday, becoming the second member of the progressive Squad to be ousted this year after massive spending by pro-Israel groups.

Wesley Bell, the elected lead prosecutor in St. Louis County, Missouri, beat Bush in what became the second most-expensive House primary in history, thanks largely to the over $8 million in spending from the United Democracy Project, the super PAC arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Although the Israel-Hamas conflict had barely factored into the primary — United Democracy Project’s ads were about other topics — the wave of outside spending in the St. Louis-based district had amplified Bush’s vulnerabilities. She’d faced a federal investigation this year into her campaign spending on security services and had alienated some local allies with her voting record.

It wasn’t about Gaza. It was about the fact she is extreme and scandal ridden.