‘Squad’ Member On Track For Embarrassing Loss After Major Newspaper Endorses Primary Opponent

Exactly one month after “Squad” Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) lost his primary to a progressive, pro-Israel challenger, another lawmaker in the far-left network is on track for her own landslide loss — and the hometown paper is telling her to throw in the towel.

A poll released on July 14th showed Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) down a stunning 23 points against her progressive challenger Wesley Bell. Now, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has released an editorial calling for her time in office to come to an end and backing Bell, citing his promises to focus on block-and-tackle matters like effective constituent services and passing laws. Previous analyses show Rep. Bush to be among the least productive lawmakers in Congress. The editorial cited the Squad’s intense focus on winning headlines instead of passing bills, according to The Hill.

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“Missouri’s First Congressional District, encompassing St. Louis city and northern St. Louis County, is our region’s most direct connection to the federal government’s seat of power,” the editorial board said in a piece published Thursday. “For the past four years, the district has been in the hands of U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat who has generally appeared less interested in working that system for the good of her constituents than attacking it on behalf of a small, hard-left klatch of lawmakers — ‘the Squad’ — who are good at getting headlines but bad at actually accomplishing anything,” the board continued.

Rep. Bush’s decline in the polls is even more remarkable considering the last survey, released in June, showed her down just 1% against the former prosecutor. Bell hasn’t separated himself from Bush on the Israel-Hamas war and remains a vocal opponent of atrocities committed during the conflict, but the Post-Dispatch concludes he is the best “viable alternative” to a congresswoman who doesn’t have much to show after two years in office.

“Democratic primary voters in the overwhelmingly Democratic district weren’t offered a viable alternative to Bush two years ago,” the Post-Dispatch editorial board said in their Thursday piece. “This year, they have a terrific one. We enthusiastically endorse Wesley Bell for the Democratic nomination to this seat in the Aug. 6 primaries.”

The Post-Dispatch’s editorial board said “Bush’s almost immediate induction into the small clique of progressive House rabble-rousers positioned her as a darling of fringe-left activists — and thus irrelevant to what actually happens in Washington. Bush voted against the Biden administration’s landmark infrastructure package — one of only six House Democrats to do so — to protest the fact that a separate social-spending package was stalled,” the board continued. “That myopic stance helps explain why labor interests that previously backed Bush have moved to Bell.”

In addition to her outspokenness, Rep. Bush has also made it easy for critics to single her out for uninformed statements and alleged lawbreaking. She struggled to describe the tax code after announcing her reelection campaign, and in January the Justice Department quietly launched an investigation into her hiring of a bodyguard with no credentials who was paid more than $100,000 over two years. The guard, Nathaniel Davis, has a history of making virulent antisemitic statements. Bush and Cortney Merritts, another bodyguard, tied the knot in a private ceremony in February 2023.

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