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A second Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan has said he was offered as much as tens of millions of dollars to run instead against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the highly controversial Democrat who has been regularly accused of being an anti-Semite.
Nasser Beydoun, a civil rights advocate and businessman from Dearborn, said in a video posted to social media that a pro-Israel lobby offered him $20 million to primary the incumbent, whose district includes Detroit, CBS News reported.
“Even knowing where I stand on AIPAC’s influence on our elections and foreign policy, the pro-Israel lobby had the nerve to suggest that I would even consider taking a dime from them,” he said in the video.
CBS noted further:
This makes Beydoun the second candidate to receive an offer like this. Hill Harper, another Democratic candidate running for Michigan Senate, said a donor offered him $20 million if he ran against Tlaib.
Harper noted on social media: “I didn’t intend for a private phone call to turn public. But now that it has, here’s the truth. One of the AIPAC’s…
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