Valerie Foushee Survives Barely!

I guess North Carolina wants a tone deaf politician.

Read the room.

Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC) served the U.S. House since 2023 and has been considered a frontrunner at some point. Then came Israel’s genocide on Gaza and the Iran War.

Foushee, won with the support of Democratic Majority for Israel. It helped her defeat Nida Allam in the first go around. This second round would be a game changer.

Right now, Foushee is leading by 1,300 votes it is a small margin that triggers a recount.

Allam has called Foushee on Wednesday declaring she has conceded.

Although, I am disappointed that Allam lost, I am not too disappointed. It puts Foushee in the crosshairs of pro Palestinian protesters who vow the next time, she better vote in the interest of her constituents.

Foushee held on in her deep-blue North Carolina seat, surviving roughly $1 million in attack ads from a new group launched to oppose the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Nida Allam said this primary challenge will force Democrats to change course of face defeat in 2026 and 2028.

Foushee beat Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam, a Bernie Sanders-backed progressive and the first Muslim woman to hold political office in the state, by a razor-thin margin in Tuesday’s primary. Allam, who had previously indicated that she plans to call for a recount, conceded the race Wednesday evening.

The race had been consumed by various tensions rippling through the Democratic Party — generational change versus institutional experience, battles over Big Tech and the influence of dark money. But Israel was the political issue that fueled the most spending against Foushee.

Nida Allam vows the fight doesn't end. She will hold Foushee and Democrats accountable.

Allam and a progressive super PAC launched to counter AIPAC spending have leaned heavily into the fact that the pro-Israel group — which Foushee has since disavowed — helped support the representative in her 2022 campaign.

But Foushee had friends of her own to counter their ads. The Anthropic-aligned Jobs and Democracy PAC and mystery super PAC called Article One both flooded the airwaves in support of Foushee.

Her win is also a loss for Leaders We Deserve, the David Hogg-founded group that has promised to primary “asleep at the wheel” Democrats, which backed Allam.