{"id":1462909,"date":"2022-05-03T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462909"},"modified":"2022-05-03T22:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:44:44","slug":"too-little-too-late-squad-acolyte-loses-again-after-trying-to-airbrush-anti-israel-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/too-little-too-late-squad-acolyte-loses-again-after-trying-to-airbrush-anti-israel-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Little, Too Late: \u2018Squad\u2019 Acolyte Loses (Again) After Trying To Airbrush Anti-Israel Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftoo-little-too-late-squad-acolyte-loses-again-after-trying-to-airbrush-anti-israel-past%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Nina Turner loses second congressional race to pro-Israel Dem Shontel Brown<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tNina Turner \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 May 3, 2022 10:26 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Would-be &#8220;Squad&#8221; member Nina Turner lost her second consecutive congressional run in Ohio following a failed attempt to reverse course on her anti-Israel past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Turner trailed Rep. Shontel Brown (D., Ohio) by 27<\/span>\u00a0points<span> when the Associated Press called the race with 53 percent of the vote on Tuesday night. The campaign saw Turner attempt to rebrand herself as a pro-Israel Democrat after her surprise <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ohio-dems-reject-bernie-acolyte-in-heated-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>2021 primary defeat<\/span><\/a><span> to Brown. During that race, Turner called to condition aid to the Jewish state, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninaturner\/status\/1392328115909664774?s=20&#038;t=ADeYpy6VW7mp_TohG2Ty3w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>expressed<\/span><\/a><span> &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with a far-left group that accused Israel of apartheid, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/jewish-groups-slam-nina-turners-anti-semitic-evil-money-remark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>blamed her loss<\/span><\/a><span> on &#8220;evil money&#8221; after pro-Israel Democrats backed her opponent. Brown, meanwhile, ran on her strong support for the U.S.-Israel alliance and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ohio-dems-reject-bernie-acolyte-in-heated-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>thanked<\/span><\/a><span> her &#8220;Jewish brothers and sisters&#8221; in her victory speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For many leading Jewish groups, Turner&#8217;s pro-Israel about-face came too little, too late. When the Democrat ran an April <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIPAC\/status\/1518695112632635393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>open letter<\/span><\/a><span> in the <\/span><i><span>Cleveland Jewish News<\/span><\/i><span> touting her &#8220;strong working relationship with [the] Jewish community,&#8221; for example, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee accused her of &#8220;pro-Israel virtue signaling.&#8221; The influential lobbying group noted that Turner did not mention the term &#8220;pro-Israel&#8221; in the letter, which also failed to explain how Turner would support the Jewish state in Congress. &#8220;End the deception,&#8221; AIPAC wrote in response. &#8220;Nina Turner is anti-Israel.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Turner also changed her tune on the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. After she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2021\/02\/israel-ohio-nina-turner-shontel-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>declined to share her stance<\/span><\/a><span> on the movement during her 2021 campaign, Turner said she would &#8220;not endorse BDS&#8221; in her <\/span><i><span>Jewish News<\/span><\/i><span> letter. But the Democrat refused to condemn the movement and pledged to oppose anti-BDS legislation while in Congress, a move AIPAC also criticized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the end, Turner&#8217;s attempts to win over Jewish groups failed spectacularly. Brown received support from Democratic Majority for Israel, Pro-Israel America, and the Jewish Democratic Council of America\u2014endorsements that proved crucial to her victory in a Cleveland district that holds a significant Orthodox population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Turner&#8217;s loss is yet another blow to the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. Turner, who served as national co-chair on Sanders&#8217;s 2020 presidential campaign, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninaturner\/status\/1349777032134209542?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>pledged to join<\/span><\/a><span> the so-called Squad if she won and received support from self-proclaimed socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.). The Democrat <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ninaturner.com\/issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>centered her campaign<\/span><\/a><span> around her support for Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and a plan to &#8220;completely reimagine&#8221; law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sanders and the Squad have had a tough go in the Buckeye State in recent years. Sanders lost Ohio to twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 and ended his campaign before the state&#8217;s nominating contest in 2020. That 2020 primary also saw Rep. Joyce Beatty (D.) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/justice-dems-trounced-in-bid-to-oust-congressional-black-caucus-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>trounce<\/span><\/a><span> Squad acolyte Morgan Harper by 36 points in Ohio&#8217;s Third Congressional District. <\/span>Harper&#8217;s Senate bid also ended unsuccessfully on Tuesday, when she lost to Democratic nominee Tim Ryan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Nina Turner loses second congressional race to pro-Israel Dem Shontel Brown  Nina Turner \/ Getty Images  Collin Anderson \u2022 May 3, 2022 10:26 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}