Cori Bush’s triumph is a signifier, one that might be even more meaningful than Jamaal Bowman’s upset in New York
Cori Bush lost to Lacy Clay by 20 points two years ago. This year, she beat him by three. Photo: Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images At the end of Knock Down The House, Rachel Lears’s 2019 documentary about four left-wing women who run for office, insurgency still looked like a long shot.
Bush herself understands this well. A working-class native of St. Louis, she’s spoken openly of her experiences with eviction, homelessness, and medical debt, and helped lead protests after a white cop killed Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014. Though Clay is a fairly mainstream Democrat and even supports Medicare for All, Bush still positioned herself to his left on policies like tuition-free public college and criticized his reliance on corporate donations.
On Monday, CBS News reported that Clay called his primary “a simple choice” between “Cori Bush’s Empty Rhetoric, or my record of real results and real reforms for the people.” In the last weeks of his campaign, Clay attacked Bush in mailers for her links to Bernie Sanders–surrogate Linda Sarsour and for her sympathy toward the nonviolent Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement, which targets Israel over its illegal settlements in Palestinian territory.
Not only has the left proven that it can keep the territory it takes, it continues to gain new ground — and not just in St. Louis. Marie Newman lost her race against conservative Democrat Dan Lipinski of Illinois in 2018, but beat him earlier this year. Not only did Bowman unseat Engel in New York, Mondaire Jones, a progressive who supports Medicare for All, won his race to replace the retiring Nita Lowrey in the 17th congressional district.
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