Wesley Bell wins Missouri House primary as Cori Bush comeback bid fails

The Democratic congressman Wesley Bell won his primary in the St Louis area on Tuesday, ending the progressive former representative Cori Bush’s bid for a comeback and blunting the momentum pro-Palestinian candidates have shown in recent elections.

Bell unseated Bush, a democratic socialist who opposes aid to the US ally and accuses it of committing a genocide in Gaza, in the Democratic congressional primary two years ago with the help of millions of dollars in spending from pro-Israel groups.

Their rematch this year came amid a spate of primary defeats of Democratic incumbents at the hands of progressive outsiders.

Shortly after polls closed, the Associated Press declared that Bell had prevailed.

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