Omar is far outstretched in the air, a dynamic that normally applies to a deployable. Melton-Meaux has spent nearly $ 2.1 million on TV advertising, compared to Omar’s $ 875,000, according to data compiled by media tracking firm Advertising Analytics. Omar has invested some $ 400,000 in digital advertising, but Melton-Meaux has $ 1.5 million in outside help.
A super-spending super PAC, Americans for Tomorrow’s Future, also won the race, spending close to $ 2.5 million on mailers and TV ads to criticize Omar and promote Melton-Meaux. The group has previously contributed to DMFI PAC – a pro-Israel super PAC that unsuccessfully tried to rescue Rep Eliot Engel (DN.Y.) in its primary at Jamaal Bowman – and uses Anedot to process payments, a company popular at Republicans until it was recently powered by WinRed.
Another group has posted emails encourage voters who typically vote Republicans to run in the Democratic primary and cast ballots for Melton-Meaux. Voters in Minnesota do not register with a political party.
Omar drew the ire of pro-Israel leaders this year when she made remarks that many of them consider anti-Semitic. She once tweeted that Israel had ‘hypnotized’ the world, saying that US lawmakers who support Israel have a double loyalty to that country and their own.
Progressive groups, which spent big time helping Tlaib in their primary last week, did little to make Omar happy. The Congresswoman’s internal interview from early July showed them with a big lead – but some operatives in the party are worried that this will be primarily much closer than Tlaib’s.
Will House Republicans still elect their most controversial member?
Greene, a QAnon conspiracy theorist and enterprising woman, finished 19 points ahead of a full-fledged primary field in June for the safe red seat dismissed by pension rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.). But after videos emerged of Greene calling Black people “slaves for the Democratic Party,” suggesting Muslims could not serve in government and calling Jewish Democratic megadonor George Soros a Nazi – Republicans in Washington and Georgia took greater interest in John Cowan, who earned second place in Tuesday’s runoff.
Recent polls show a tight price demand and some rank-and-file lawmakers are angry that no major outside effort has been made to stop them. A victory by Greene would cause months, if not years, of headaches for the House GOP conference, which only two months ago finally rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) expelled, a member who has long had an openness to white nationalism.
Several members of Congress, including House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Have joined Cowan, fundraising for him and attending him for Zoom events. But after describing Greene’s comments in June as “appalling,” Leader House Minority Kevin McCarthy now calls him neutral – a position that may have allowed groups outside of them to evade spending on behalf of Cowan. President Donald Trump also took no sides in the race.
Cowan has suggested that her victory would humiliate the Republican Party and drag other GOP candidates into Georgia. (“She’s not conservative – she’s crazy,” he said in a recent interview.) Greene did not backtrack on any of the statements she made in her videos. In a recent interview, she continued to advocate for a conspiracy theory that Soros, a Holocaust survivor, gave to Jews in the Nazis.
Another runoff in a neighboring district of Georgia, held by GOP Rep. Doug Collins, has seen an abundance of mountaineering from outside. Substitute Matt Gurtler and veteran Andrew Clyde are vying for the safe, red seat. The Club for Growth has spent heavily on Gurtler, who has been criticized during the campaign for posing for a photo with a white supremacist.
The GOP will also elect a likely new member of Congress in a deep-red open Wisconsin seat. The frontrunner there is Leader Scott Fitzgerald of the state Senate, who has been a leading figure in the political and policy ripples of Republicans in Madison.
Collin Peterson gets a challenger
House Speaker Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) Has been the white whale of Republicans for the better part of a decade. Peterson represents a conservative district in western Minnesota, and is in his 15th term, after surviving a number of close talks – including in 2016, when he managed to win re-election despite Trump leading his district by 31 points .
Republicans believe Peterson’s fortunes will turn up against the frontrunner in the primary on Tuesday: Michelle Fischbach, a former president of the state House of Representatives who recently served as lieutenant governor.
