Aipac-linked Super Pacs spend millions in California to thwart progressive candidate

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Super Pacs tied to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) have spent millions in a California congressional race to keep a progressive Democrat from winning Eric Swalwell’s former seat. Aisha Wahab, a state senator who has been endorsed by the California Democratic party, is widely considered the frontrunner in the special election for the district covering a swathe of the East Bay. Swalwell had been in office for more than a decade when he resigned earlier this year following multiple allegations of sexual assault. Wahab outpaced her closest competitor, Melissa Hernandez, the president of the board of directors for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) agency and a former…

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