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   Liberal challenger Cori Bush defeated Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) in   
   a primary for his St. Louis-based House seat on Tuesday — a huge   
   win for the left and a seismic loss for the Congressional Black   
   Caucus, which has tried to snuff out challenges from younger   
   candidates.   
      
   Bush’s victory came two years after her first challenge to Clay,   
   which the incumbent won by 20 percentage points. But this cycle,   
   Bush’s campaign was better funded and had more outside help from   
   a wide array of surrogates including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)   
   and the Justice Democrats, the group that helped elect Rep.   
   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).   
      
   She led Clay by more than 4,600 votes when The Associated Press   
   called the race late Tuesday night.   
      
   For the left, the outcome is proof that they could translate the   
   momentum from their wins earlier this month in the New York   
   primaries into a victory in the heartland of the country. But it   
   will also further intensify the feud between liberals and CBC   
   leaders, who have forcefully decried challenges against their   
   members.   
      
   The Black Caucus had successfully defended two other incumbents   
   from progressive opponents earlier this year: Reps. Joyce Beatty   
   (D-Ohio) and Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.). CBC members rallied around   
   Clay, hoping to use this primary as another chance to ward off   
   future challenges.   
      
   But Bush, who participated in the 2014 protests in Ferguson,   
   Mo., after the police shooting of an unarmed black man, made her   
   activism the centerpiece of her 2020 campaign.   
      
   "We've been called radicals, terrorists. We've been dismissed as   
   an impossible fringe movement," she said during a victory speech   
   Tuesday night. "But now we are a multi-racial, multi-ethnic,   
   multi-generational, multi-faith mass movement united in   
   demanding change, in demanding accountability, in demanding that   
   our police, our government, our country recognize that Black   
   lives do indeed matter."   
      
   Clay is the seventh incumbent to fall in the 2020 cycle — and   
   the second one on Tuesday after Rep. Steve Watkins (R-Kan.) got   
   trounced by his GOP challenger. Bush's win represents the end of   
   an era; The Clay family has held Missouri's 1st District since   
   1969. Clay was first elected in 2000, succeeding his father,   
   former Rep. Bill Clay (D-Mo.), a co-founder of the Black Caucus.   
      
   Bush rode a wave of progressive enthusiasm generated by wins in   
   the New York primaries where Jamaal Bowman, a middle-school   
   principal backed by Justice Democrats, ousted House Foreign   
   Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), and two other   
   progressives won open seats in the city and its suburbs.   
      
   Bowman endorsed Bush, who said in a pre-primary interview that   
   she saw a surge in donations and volunteer interest after those   
   wins that helped her in the final weeks.   
      
   “Cori is the fifth challenger backed by Justice Democrats to   
   unseat an incumbent. She organized a movement through pepper   
   spray and rioting police in the streets of Ferguson,” said Alex   
   Rojas, group’s executive director in a statement. “Her tenacity   
   and unbreakable pursuit of justice is desperately needed in   
   Congress today.”   
      
   Clay took the threat seriously, dropping negative mailers and   
   running a TV ad that excoriated Bush for taking a $22,000 salary   
   from her campaign in the second quarter. And he outraised Bush   
   $744,000 to her $570,000, by mid-July.   
      
   But the incumbent was outspent on TV by Bush and her allies by   
   at least $250,000. Justice Democrats and a new group, Fight   
   Corporate Monopolies, aired TV ads on her behalf.   
      
   And Bush had also seen her profile rise since she first ran in   
   2018. She served as a surrogate for Sanders’ 2020 campaign and   
   was featured in the Netflix documentary “Bringing Down the   
   House” with now-Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — both of which   
   raised her name ID. Sanders himself fundraised for her and   
   joined livestream events with her campaign.   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez is a personal friend of Bush who endorsed and   
   campaigned with her in St. Louis in 2018. But Ocasio-Cortez, who   
   serves on a committee with Clay, declined to endorse Bush this   
   time, a sign of the fraught politics surrounding challenges of   
   sitting incumbents.   
      
   Bush’s win comes at the end of the 2020 primary season, but it   
   is sure to rattle the Black Caucus leaders ahead of the 2022   
   cycle, when House races will be run under redistricted   
   congressional lines.   
      
   https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/05/progressive-challenger-   
   beats-lacy-clay-in-missouri-primary-391662   
        
      
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