Podcast / See How They Run / Jun 29, 2024

What Can Jamaal Bowman’s Defeat Teach Us?

On this episode of See How They Run, Micah Sifry and Peter Beinart on 2024’s most divisive congressional primary.

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What Can Jamaal Bowman’s Defeat Teach Us? | See How They Run
byThe Nation Magazine

On this episode of See How They Run, Micah Sifry and Peter Beinart join D.D. Guttenplan for a discussion about 2024's most divisive congressional primary.

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Representative Jamaal Bowman during a Get Out the Vote campaign event at Hartley Park on June 24, 2024, in Mount Vernon, New York.

Representative Jamaal Bowman during a Get Out the Vote campaign event at Hartley Park on June 24, 2024, in Mount Vernon, New York.

(Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

Last week, Jamaal Bowman–one of the most prominent progressive politicians in the country–was defeated in the primary for his New York congressional seat. The election laid bare many of the issues currently dividing Democrats: the battle between the establishment and the left, the role of money in politics, and, most bitterly, the party’s stance on Israel and Gaza.

So what does Bowman’s defeat tell us about the Democratic Party, particularly its left? On this episode of See How They Run, we’re joined by Micah Sifry and Peter Beinart to discuss how we think about the role of the Israel lobby, whose campaign against Bowman turned this race into the most expensive House primary in American history.

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D.D. Guttenplan

D.D. Guttenplan is a special correspondent for The Nation and the former host of The Nation Podcast. He served as editor of the magazine from 2019 to 2025 and, prior to that, as an editor at large and London correspondent. His books include American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, The Nation: A Biography, and The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority.

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