{"id":598598,"date":"2023-11-23T01:01:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/democratic-senate-candidate-says-he-rejected-20m-offer-to-challenge-tlaib\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T01:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T22:01:13","slug":"democratic-senate-candidate-says-he-rejected-20m-offer-to-challenge-tlaib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democratic-senate-candidate-says-he-rejected-20m-offer-to-challenge-tlaib\/","title":{"rendered":"#Democratic Senate candidate says he rejected $20M offer to challenge Tlaib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/tlaibrashida_111323gn02_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan said Wednesday he rejected a $20 million offer to drop out of his race and challenge Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for her House seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t intend for a private phone call to turn public,\u201d Hill Harper <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hillharper\/status\/1727391882706378781\">posted<\/a> to X, the platform formerly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> Wednesday, linking to a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/11\/22\/donor-20-million-tlaib-primary-00128443\">Politico report<\/a> on the offer. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cBut now that it has, here\u2019s the truth. One of [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee\u2019]s biggest donors offered $20m if I dropped out of the U.S. Senate race to run against @RashidaTlaib. I said no. I won\u2019t be bossed, bullied, or bought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politico named Michigan businessman Linden Nelson as the person behind the reported offer in mid-October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nelson <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.bentley.umich.edu\/djnews\/djn.2010.04.01.001\/15\">has been<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel\/at-aipac-conference-pm-dances-around-scandal-issue#google_vignette\">involved<\/a> with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in the past. However, in an emailed statement to The Hill, AIPAC said it \u201cwas absolutely not involved in any way in this matter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, our records indicate that this individual has not contributed to AIPAC in over a decade,\u201d it added. <\/p>\n<p>AIPAC has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AIPAC\/status\/1725327360092787152?s=20\">been<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AIPAC\/status\/1725920475585695761?s=20\">critical<\/a> of Tlaib and other progressives who have called for an immediate ceasefire to protect Palestinian civilians. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas spends $350 million every year trying to kill Israelis instead of helping Palestinians,\u201d a late October post on X by AIPAC <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIPAC\/status\/1717716428957139307\">reads<\/a>. \u201cBuilding rockets and tunnels instead of schools and hospitals. So why are you trying to keep Hamas in power, @AOC @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @JamaalBowmanNY @MarkPocan @CoriBush? No truce with terrorists. No ceasefire with Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, has been among the loudest critics in Congress of Israel in its current war with Palestinian militant group Hamas. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the House voted to censure Tlaib for some of her most controversial remarks, such as using the slogan \u201cfrom the river to the sea,\u201d which is seen by many as a call to eliminate Israel. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for her House seat. \u201cI didn\u2019t intend for a private phone call to turn public,\u201d Hill Harper posted to X, the platform formerly known as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/tlaibrashida_111323gn02_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[129175,4997,139252,134343,134418,111159,134661,134420,141609,103820,147182,71035,2184,146369,137666,136981,54080,115,93135,82541,4965],"class_list":["post-598598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aipac","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-business-economy","tag-campaign","tag-congress-blog","tag-cori-bush","tag-energy-environment","tag-equilibrium-sustainability","tag-evening-report","tag-hamas","tag-hill-harper","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-conflict","tag-jamaal-bowman","tag-mark-pocan","tag-michigan","tag-news","tag-politico","tag-rashida-tlaib","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}