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Progressives have made a brand in recent years of not shying away from primary battles, with several of the left-wing’s most high-profile players rising to fame after ousting incumbents.
But now the tables have turned on two members of the so-called progressive “squad”—as centrist challengers emerge to try and take their seat in the Aug. 2 primaries.
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Cori Bush (MO) are both early career members of Congress, being elected in 2018 and 2020 respectively. Tlaib won her seat by challenging short-term Rep. Brenda Jones(D-MI), who’d won a special election following the retirement of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) earlier that year, and Bush won her seat in Congress after two primary bids against incumbent Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO), who she bested by just over three points in the district’s 2020 primary.