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Can a Pro-Israel Democrat Still Win a Big Primary? She’s Going to Try.
One after another, mainstream Democrats have lost high-profile primary races this year to progressives who campaigned on ending U.S. military support for Israel.
Haley Stevens is trying to defy that trend.
Ms. Stevens, a moderate Michigan congresswoman backed by Democratic leaders in Washington and the leading pro-Israel super PAC, is aiming to win one of the party’s most important Senate primaries as a firm supporter of the Jewish state.
She does not believe there has been a genocide in Gaza. She supports maintaining U.S. military aid to Israel without conditions. And she makes no apology for receiving more than $28 million in advertising help from the nation’s leading pro-Israel super PAC, according to AdImpact, a media tracking firm. (Despite calling “for an end to dark money in this country” in an interview with The New York Times, she has received another $20 million in help from four other super PACs with undisclosed donors.)