”It is important that we be very mindful of what we say. This kind of rhetoric is inflammatory, and divisive and incredibly unhelpful.”
The White House attempted to distance itself from Congresswoman Cori Bush on Wednesday following her "inflammatory" comments after her primary defeat on Tuesday. Bush lost to St. Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell and will not be returning to the US House after her term expires this session.
Bush has complained that Wesley Bell was backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In her concession speech, Bush warned that the group should “be afraid” and that it had “radicalized her.” New York Squad member Jamaal Bowman, who also speaks out for Palestinians over Israel, also lost his seat. Both races were insanely expensive.
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View on X"AIPAC, I'm coming to tear your kingdom down," Bush declared. "And let me put all of these corporations on notice, I'm coming after you, too!" Bush was elected to office after her role as a community and political activist following the race riots in St. Louis after Michael Brown's death.
In response to Bush's comments, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized the importance of lowering political rhetoric. “The President has always been very clear and very recently after the assassination attempt of the last president about lowering rhetoric – lowering the rhetoric and the importance of doing that,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement to the Daily Mail.
”It is important that we be very mindful of what we say. This kind of rhetoric is inflammatory, and divisive and incredibly unhelpful,” she added. “And we're going to condemn any type of political rhetoric in that way, in that vein, and so it is important to be mindful in what we say and how we say it. But we cannot have this type of inflammatory and divisive language in our political discourse.”
Much money was poured into defeating Bush after her previous comments where she viciously attacked Israel and defended Hamas by refusing to label them as a terrorist group. AIPAC spent roughly $9 million to support Bush's opponent to increase the odds she would not win a third term in Congress.
Bush’s ousting makes her the second member of the Democratic “Squad” to lose in a primary this year. AIPAC also backed Jamaal Bowman's opposition, causing Bowman to lose his reelection efforts.
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