Sanders feuds with AIPAC over last-minute Rogers donations
The most telling detail here isn't the dollar figure, it's that AIPAC is wading into a Republican primary at all, and Sanders is treating it like an act of war against his own side. Michigan's Senate race has become a proxy fight for the Democratic Party's soul, and the language on both ends is getting hotter by the day. Calling AIPAC the reason the U.S. is "at war in Iran" is a serious charge that goes well beyond debate over campaign cash, and I'd want to see a breakdown of exactly how that $9 million breaks out between independent expenditures and direct donations before taking anyone's math at face value.
What matters here is that this clash is playing out before a general election, not a primary, which suggests both camps think this race is genuinely close and that these attacks will move voters. I land somewhere in the middle. I think AIPAC has every right to spend on candidates it favors, and its defenders are right that Sanders is conflating support for Israel with support for every policy action. But I also think Sanders is naming a real trend: pro-Israel money is reshaping primaries in ways that make incumbents think twice, and that's worth a honest public argument. I just wish the argument stayed on the spending and didn't drift into indicting an entire organization for the conduct of a war.