Kat Abughazaleh

foreign policy kat welcome to ihip news again 24 hours are you nervous 24 hours i'm excited uh the last week has been insane um you know it was originally a three-way race and now it's a two-way race and aipac is panicking they are trying new strategies no one's ever seen they are just throwing stuff at the wall and meanwhile we are knocking doors calling people and getting out the vote

Yeah, I mean, that's why I'm under federal indictment.

It's because I have been one of the most effective critics of the Trump administration, certainly in my race.

I'm a researcher and journalist that covered the far right.

But as context for our race, this district goes from Chicago up to Evanston, west to Skokie, and then all the way to Algonquin and Crystal Lake.

And originally, this was a three-way race between

Mayor Daniel Biss of Evanston, myself, and then Laura Fine, who was the AIPAC-backed candidate.

But both her and Daniel met with AIPAC early on, submitted position papers to AIPAC early on, and AIPAC accidentally pulled the New Jersey 11, where Daniel Biss was critical of Israel, but still happy to fund the Iron Dome, pass federal legislation.

anti BDS legislation, which he helped pass the first anti BDS law in the country here in Illinois.

And then they realized this week that we are tied for first.

And that doesn't even count the fact that so many of our voters are people that don't really get polled as much or are weighted less in polls.

So now they are panicking.

They know that Laura Fine's campaign is dead in the water.

Daniel Biss is stagnated.

Laura Fine has gone down and we are growing.

And so they, from APEC's perspective, are looking at the lesser of two evils.

They have started putting out ads, $100,000 worth of ads for a different progressive candidate in hopes of splitting my vote to get Daniel Biss elected.

And as for my own campaign, they have put a million dollars behind attack ads, mailers.

We learned about a dark money influencer operation this week.

Oh my God, I heard about this.