Jamel Bouie

Like he says, I'm conservative, but this would help people, broadly speaking, and doesn't cut too much against my own conservative views.

And as a lawmaker, not simply as some sort of vessel for partisan rage, as a lawmaker, I have this responsibility to lawmaking.

That's why I'm here.

And the Paxton type is someone who rejects any obligation whatsoever except to one, except to the acquisition of power for oneself.

That's so funny.

Character matters, but if we, I'm going to give character this Baroque definition that no one else follows.

Yeah, sure, yeah.

If my grandmother had wheels, it should be a bicycle, right?

Like, sure, of course.

Sure.

So for a little more context, this was a race to replace Mikey Sherrill, who's now governor of New Jersey.

This is her district.

And my sense of what happened here is that the former representative, Tom Malinowski, who was favored to win, was in a good position to win, but...

Two things happen.

The first is that perhaps sensing what is changing among Democratic voters, Malinowski, who was a very pro-Israel Democrat when he was in Congress, was willing to say he would put some conditions on aid to Israel, given conditions in Gaza.

And AIPAC, the kind of lobbying group, kind of unleashed millions of dollars in ads against him for not having kind of a categorical hard line.

And mind you, like, it's not as if Malinowski was saying that Israel's conduct in Gaza was a genocide, unlike his opponent, who was saying that it constituted a genocide.

And she is an even more resolute opponent.

of aid to Israel.

So APEC is unloading millions of dollars in ads against Malinowski.