Why Jamaal Bowman Lost
The New York progressive veered too far left of his constituents.
The easiest explanation for why Representative Jamaal Bowman lost his Democratic primary in New York today is that he alienated the Jewish voters in his district with his denunciations of Israel. That explanation is reasonable, as far as it goes. Indeed, the race was the most expensive House primary in history largely because a pro-Israel group inundated the district with TV ads attacking Bowman. But that’s not the whole story.
Bowman’s defeat by George Latimer, the executive of Westchester County, made him the first member of the House’s progressive “Squad” to lose
