{"id":1513942,"date":"2022-06-13T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513942"},"modified":"2022-06-13T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:05:40","slug":"pro-israel-billionaire-spending-thousands-to-unseat-rashida-tlaib-through-pac-tied-to-cnn-pundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-israel-billionaire-spending-thousands-to-unseat-rashida-tlaib-through-pac-tied-to-cnn-pundit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Israel Billionaire Spending Thousands To Unseat Rashida Tlaib Through PAC Tied To CNN Pundit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fpro-israel-billionaire-spending-thousands-to-unseat-rashida-tlaib-through-pac-tied-to-cnn-pundit%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=1513942&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--><ul>\n<li><strong>A billionaire hedge fund manager, who has contributed to pro-Israeli causes, has given more than $76,000 to a Democratic political action committee that pledged to spend millions of dollars trying to oust Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, federal records show.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Tlaib has repeatedly come under fire for making anti-semitic remarks since assuming office in 2019.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pollster Robert Cahaly says the apparent infighting among Democratic donors in primaries, like that in the case of Tlaib\u2019s, \u201cmakes total sense.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A hedge fund manager, who is supportive of Israel, has spent over $76,000 bolstering a Democratic political action committee (PAC) seeking to oust Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Loeb, who runs the New York-based hedge fund Third Point LLC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00792408&#038;contributor_name=Daniel+Loeb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contributed<\/a> three times between October and December 2021 to the Urban Empowerment Action PAC. The PAC supports political candidates \u201cdedicated to the educational empowerment and economic uplift of Black communities,\u201d and it\u2019s getting fundraising help from CNN commentator Bakari Sellers, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/the-recast\/2022\/05\/27\/scoop-pac-to-spend-1m-to-oust-squad-member-talib-00035738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/elizabeth-warren-rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar-refuse-condemn-pro-abortion-protesters-federal-law\/\"><strong>(RELATED:\u00a0Warren, Omar, Tlaib Refuse To Condemn Protesters Ignoring Federal Law)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Urban Empowerment Action PAC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000181-0632-d853-abc5-aff2500e0000\">pledged<\/a> millions of dollars in late May to support five Democratic congressional primary candidates, including Janice Winfrey, a Detroit city clerk running against Tlaib.<\/p>\n<p>Tlaib, one of the six members of the so-called \u201cSquad,\u201d has repeatedly come under fire from critics since assuming office in 2019 for making remarks deemed anti-semitic by critics. In 2021, Tlaib <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/jewish-groups-tlaib-accusations-israel-apartheid\/\">said<\/a> Israel is a \u201cviolent apartheid system\u201d after claiming people from \u201cGaza to Detroit\u201d are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/jewish-leaders-condemn-tlaibs-antisemitic-dog-whistle-in-recent-comments\/\">controlled<\/a> by people \u201cbehind a curtain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_5D3A54EC-9A9D-DCDD-49AD-B101201C3687@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\u201cThere\u2019s kind of a calming feeling I always tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways, have been wiped out and some people\u2019s passports,\u201d the congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/13\/politics\/rashida-tlaib-holocaust-comments\/index.html\">said<\/a> on a podcast in 2019.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_5D3A54EC-9A9D-DCDD-49AD-B101201C3687@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Loeb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdpoint.com\/executive-team\/daniel-s-loeb\/\">calls<\/a> himself a \u201cstrong supporter of Jewish and Israel causes,\u201d and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/third-point-llc\/summary?topnumcycle=2022&#038;contribcycle=2022&#038;lobcycle=2022&#038;outspendcycle=2022&#038;id=D000030377&#038;toprecipcycle=2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">given<\/a> $125,000 in 2022 to Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), a left-leaning pro-Israel advocacy <a href=\"https:\/\/dmfipac.org\/\">group<\/a>. He\u2019s also given $5,000 to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00797670&#038;contributor_name=Daniel+Loeb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to records. The billionaire has contributed generously to both Democratic and Republican causes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7449294\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7449294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, listens as Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., left, speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 8, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Harnik \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_5D3A54EC-9A9D-DCDD-49AD-B101201C3687@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">There has been a groundswell of Democrats pushing back against the party\u2019s more left-wing members and candidates.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_5D3A54EC-9A9D-DCDD-49AD-B101201C3687@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Robert Cahaly, the chief pollster at the Trafalgar Group, told TheDCNF that the apparent infighting among Democratic donors in primaries,\u201d like that in the case of Tlaib\u2019s, \u201cmakes total sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_5D3A54EC-9A9D-DCDD-49AD-B101201C3687@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\u201cThe leadership and the more mainstream Democratic Party has realized these extreme elements are moving their party to places they don\u2019t want to go,\u201d said Cahaly.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_5D3A54EC-9A9D-DCDD-49AD-B101201C3687@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Since May, one liberal dark-money group called Opportunity for All Action Fund has spent over half a million dollars to support Democratic incumbents facing off in primary season against candidates with more fringe views,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/outsidespending\/detail.php?cmte=C90021353&#038;cycle=2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a>\u00a0to OpenSecrets. One of these incumbents is Nevada Rep. Dina Titus, challenged by Amy Vilela, the former Nevada co-chair for Bernie Sanders\u2019 2020 presidential campaign who the Independent Vermont senator also endorsed.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_5D3A54EC-9A9D-DCDD-49AD-B101201C3687@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Similarly, DMFI\u2019s PAC spent roughly $2 million to support now-Democratic Ohio Rep. Shontel Brown in her primary race against Nina Turner, who Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2022\/04\/13\/nina-real-leader-who-fights-sanders-endorses-turner-congress\">also<\/a> threw his hat behind, <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00710848\/1533172\/se\">according<\/a> to FEC records. The political arm of DMFI endorsed 15 House candidates in January who the group says are \u201ccommitted to strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship\u201d and rejecting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that refers to Israel as an \u201capartheid\u201d state,\u00a0JewishInsider <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2022\/01\/dmfi-pac-announces-first-slate-of-house-endorsements\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_5D3A54EC-9A9D-DCDD-49AD-B101201C3687@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Third Point did not respond to TheDCNF\u2019s request for comment, nor did Tlaib\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A billionaire hedge fund manager, who has contributed to pro-Israeli causes, has given more than $76,000 to a Democratic political action committee that pledged to spend millions of dollars trying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513942","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\/1513942","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\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513942\/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=1513942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}