Summer Lee cruised to a convincing victory on Tuesday night against a well-financed opponent who had hoped Lee’s outspoken opposition to Israel’s ongoing attack on Gaza would bring the freshman congresswoman down. With most of the vote counted, Lee leads Bhavini Patel with a blowout margin. The race was a test of the politics of Israel–Palestine, as Lee is among the Squad members who called for an early ceasefire and whom AIPAC had been hoping to take out.
I am really hoping this Gaza thing ends up landing a lot more progressives in congress, since it seems pretty clear from this that that’s where popular (democratic) opinion seems to lay. Hopefully if that happens, next election cycle the DNC will stop being such adamant moderate shitbags, and MAYBE (massive hopium) we can actually get the social safety nets we need out of it, too.