Cori Bush’s Comeback Bid Tests Limits of Progressives

“In her concession speech after losing the Democratic primary in 2024, then-Rep. Cori Bush delivered stern words to Aipac, a pro-Israel group that poured millions into defeating her: ‘I’m coming to tear your kingdom down,’” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Two years later, Bush is staging a comeback attempt to reclaim the deep-blue Missouri seat she lost to Democratic Rep. Wesley Bell, a former prosecutor running as a more-centrist candidate to represent St. Louis and some of its inner suburbs.”

“The rematch Tuesday marks a high-profile test of which direction Democratic voters want to go: a pragmatic, moderate path personified by Bell, or the more-energetic, leftward direction sought by Bush, a onetime member of the ‘Squad’ of prominent progressive lawmakers.”