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MSNBC's Chris Hayes ripped for claiming Bowman race a 'dead heat' without pro-Israel AIPAC's involvement
MSNBC host Chris Hayes appeared to blame the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s embarrassing primary defeat Tuesday, saying the race would have been a “dead heat” without it.
“[H]aving spent a fair amount of time around members of [C]ongress, a $14 million dollar money bomb is totally bananas and there’s just nothing like it and no candidate anywhere with the ability to deal with it,” Hayes wrote on X, referencing AIPAC putting a reported $14.5 million into the race to remove Bowman, a far-left Israel critic, from office in New York’s 16th Congressional District.
The race was quickly called for Democratic challenger George Latimer, with results showing a double-digit lead early Wednesday morning, a rare and lopsided rebuke of an incumbent by his own party voters.
Bowman has been outspoken about his support for Palestinians amid the war in Gaza and has charged that Israel is committing genocide in the region. In his campaign, Latimer argued that Bowman had lost touch with constituents in his district, and Semafor’s Benjy Sarlin noted to Hayes that AIPAC had focused on the race in part because of Bowman’s polling weaknesses going into this year, such as over his embarrassing fire alarm pulling incident.
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MSNBC host claimed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which supported Westchester County executive George Latimer over Jamaal Bowman for Congress, was the deciding factor in the race. (Getty Images)
“I think w/o AIPAC it’s probably a dead heat of a race and all the motivating factors you note are real and still very much at play,” Hayes wrote to Sarlin.
Hayes’ take came in for swift criticism, as critics noted Bowman’s polling woes were apparent months ago.
“Bowman was down 17 points before AIPAC ever aired an ad in this race,” Tablet’s Noam Blum wrote to Hayes.
“AIPAC could never exist and enough decent human beings still live in Westchester County and the Bronx to be utterly horrified about Jamaal Bowman laughing and mocking off the GoPro’d rapes of women and slaughtering of infants as ‘lies’ and ‘propaganda.’ He did it to himself,” National Review’s Jeff Blehar added.
Bowman’s loss Tuesday night to Latimer made him the first House member of either party to be defeated by a primary challenger so far in the 2024 election cycle. Bowman will also be the first member of the far-left “Squad” to lose his seat after Latimer grabbed the Democratic nomination from him.
Bowman attacked AIPAC multiple times on the campaign trail, saying at a rally on Saturday that he would defeat the organization. AIPAC has become a bogeyman to anti-Israel progressives, who accuse it of holding too much influence over politicians.
“We are going to show f—— AIPAC, the power of the motherf—— South Bronx!” Bowman said at the rally, which was held outside the congressional district’s boundaries. The 16th district does not include the South Bronx.
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Bowman has been outspoken about his support for Palestinians amid the war in Gaza and has charged that Israel is committing genocide in the region. In his campaign, Latimer argued that Bowman had lost touch with his own district. (Getty Images)
On Tuesday night, Bowman apologized for “sometimes using foul language” but said that “we should be outraged when a super PAC of dark money can spend $20 million to brainwash people into believing something that isn’t true. We should be outraged about that.”
Bowman and Latimer’s campaigns did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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Tony Danza is making up for lost time.
“One of the things I most regret about my life is that I didn’t take advantage of my youth,” said Mr. Danza, 75. “I had a great time, but nobody handed me an instrument and said, ‘Try this.’”
Now he is learning how to speak Spanish, play the piano and a cornet.
Mr. Danza, best known for his leading roles in the television series “Who’s the Boss?” and “Taxi,” has been entertainment’s jack-of-all-trades for decades. Yet he’s still striving to be the best singer, dancer and actor he can be.
“What I am is a guy with finite time who wants to get in as much as he can while he can,” he said.
Mr. Danza spent a Friday with The New York Times as he got ready for two performances, including a one-man show at Café Carlyle.
There isn’t a whole lot of heat in this version of the rivalry, but this one felt — and mostly looked — good. The Sox started with a former Yankee, Gray, who matched his season-high with 6⅓ innings, and closed with a former Yankee, Aroldis Chapman, who worked around a pair of walks in the ninth inning to record the save.
Willson Contreras and Andruw Monasterio hit home runs off lefthander Ryan Weathers (six innings, five runs). Contreras added another hit and RBI, and Monasterio snared Anthony Volpe’s line drive up the middle for a rally-killing unassisted double play in the fourth.
“Just a great game all around,” said interim manager Chad Tracy, who visited the current Yankee Stadium for the first time in any capacity.
Gray said: “There was definitely some juice.”
Chapman limped around the mound a bit in pursuit of the save because he has been dealing with a minor hamstring issue for about a week, Tracy said. But he has managed it and was able to pitch in the series opener, albeit wildly.
“We’re keeping an eye on it, but he’s grinding,” Tracy said. “He did a nice job. He obviously didn’t have his command the first couple of hitters, but then, like he always does, bears down and got it done.”
In his return to Yankee Stadium, a personal house of horrors through the years, including his 2017-18 stint with the Yankees, Gray limited the damage to three runs and eight hits. Ben Rice and Trent Grisham tagged him for home runs, but Gray was relieved that they were solo shots — acceptable on a night when he had “not even close” to his sharpest repertoire, he said.
He lowered his ERA in the Bronx to 5.95.
Gray’s outing featured virtually no pushback from the announced crowd of 43,750 (not a sellout).
In December, upon joining the Red Sox via trade with the Cardinals, Gray said that he “never wanted to go [to the Yankees] in the first place” and that it “feels good to me to go to a place now where, you know what, it’s easy to hate the Yankees.” His comments triggered an outrage cycle in New York.
Six months later, New York fans seemed indifferent about it. Gray garnered only a smattering of boos during pregame introductions, when the stands were not even half-full, and no discernable crowd reaction during the game.
Gray wondered if heightened emotion on his side led to his not being in top form.
“I’ll learn from it and be able to control my emotions and my energy and be able to just make pitches,” he said. “Felt really good, but I felt like my stuff just stayed up … It was fun. I’ve been back here and pitched, but first time with the Red Sox. But I’m glad we came away with a win.”
The Sox (27-35) took the lead for good in the third, when Contreras’s two-out check swing resulted in a soft bouncer to the third-base side of the mound. He beat it out for a single.
In the fifth, after the Yankees (37-26) had cut the deficit back to one, Contreras opened it up again with a two-run shot into the second deck in left field.
Lefthander Danny Coulombe relieved Gray in the seventh and got the final two outs of the inning. The last one was harder, though, because Contreras and Monasterio collided and dropped a foul pop from Rice. Monasterio said neither called for it.
Coulombe struck Rice out swinging on the eighth pitch of the at-bat.
“Next time, I’m going to call it,” Monasterio said. “I promise.”
Tim Healey can be reached at timothy.healey@globe.com. Follow him @timbhealey.
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