SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: AIPAC just watched two thirds of its midterm money go up in smoke, and its own donors aren’t being told the full story

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2118521816985543113

Mario Nawfal

   AIPAC just watched two thirds of its midterm money go up in smoke, and its own donors aren’t being told the full story

Eli Clifton, the Quincy Institute analyst who co-wrote Israel’s Lobby, tracked more than $84 million spent through AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project, and found $55.3 million of it, nearly two thirds, went into races that lost, a collapse from its usual success rate of well over 66%.

The biggest single target was Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, where more than $22 million was spent against him and he still won.

Eli found over 90% of the $50,000-plus donors behind that money came from outside the state, with Republican megadonors Paul Singer and Jan Koum the two largest.

The war was the headwind AIPAC couldn’t spend its way past.

The lobby spent 20 years cheerleading it, and voters felt the bill at the gas pump and the grocery store... which means the money didn’t just lose, it bought the thing that beat it.

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