{"id":14000,"date":"2025-10-03T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cori-bush-launches-comeback-bid-for-missouri-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:17:09","slug":"cori-bush-launches-comeback-bid-for-missouri-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cori-bush-launches-comeback-bid-for-missouri-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cori Bush launches comeback bid for Missouri seat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is making a play for her old St. Louis seat in Congress, she announced Friday on X, a year after losing a primary in part due to her opposition to Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ran for Congress to change things for regular people,\u201d she said in a video announcement<\/u><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m running again because St. Louis deserves leadership that doesn\u2019t wait for permission, doesn\u2019t answer to wealthy donors and doesn\u2019t hide when things get tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Squad member spent two terms in Congress before being unseated in a messy Democratic primary by Rep. Wesley Bell (D-Mo.), whose campaign was bankrolled by millions from pro-Israel groups<\/u><\/a>, including $8 million from AIPAC.<\/p>\n

She was one of two progressive Democrats<\/u><\/a> to lose in primaries against candidates backed by AIPAC last summer. Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) was bested last year by Democrat George Latimer.<\/p>\n

While in Congress, Bush led a sit-in at the steps of the Capitol that pressured the Biden administration to continue a pandemic-era eviction moratorium<\/u><\/a>. And she became an outspoken critic of Israel\u2019s war against Hamas in Gaza, calling for a ceasefire and describing Israel as an “apartheid state.”<\/p>\n

Bush told Blue Light News last December<\/u><\/a> that it was \u201cRepublican money\u201d that unseated her in St. Louis. She acknowledged AIPAC\u2019s role in her defeat last August<\/u><\/a>, telling the lobbying group \u201cI\u2019m coming to tear your kingdom down\u201d in a speech following Bell\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n

But Bush cast a forward-looking view in her campaign announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll across America we see it, our rights rolled back, our history being rewritten, our lives on the line,\u201d she said. \u201cThe stakes for our community here have never been higher. I\u2019m running because our district deserves someone ten toes down, for our families, for our wallets, for our safety, for our Democracy and for our bright future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is making a play for her old St. Louis seat in Congress, she announced Friday on X, a year after losing a primary in part due to her opposition to Israel. \u201cI ran for Congress to change things for regular people,\u201d she said in a video announcement. \u201cI\u2019m running again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}