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Scoop: CBC-aligned PAC rolls out a new ad attacking Democrat William Lawrence in the MI-07 primary, going after his remarks on Black leaders and an establishment that “defangs the white left.” Rivals are Bridget Brink & Matt Maasdam. A key swing district.
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![🗳️ HuffPost attempts to turn critique of Democratic establishment into racial scandal HuffPost appears to be attempting to smear William Lawrence, a pro-Palestine progressive challenger running for the Democratic nomination in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, with a misleading headline claiming he said “Black Democratic Leaders ‘Defang the White Left.’” On a September 2024 episode of his podcast, Lawrence, a Sunrise Movement co-founder, had argued that older Black political leaders have become a key institutional base of the Democratic establishment, helping sustain capitalist and imperial U.S. power. He said this repeatedly blocks left-wing organizing and puts white progressive organizers like himself in a politically difficult position because challenging those leaders is then framed as challenging Black political power itself. “It’s a big problem for left politics in this country,” he said. He then pointed to younger Black voters moving away from Democrats and asked his guest, a co-founder of Black 4 Palestine, whether a younger Black left could break that dynamic and help build a different political alignment. Since the article’s publication, centrist Democrats and certain Democratic Party officials have seized on the HuffPost story to demand that various groups and lawmakers revoke their endorsements of Lawrence. Lawrence, who is endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib expressed regret for the “clumsy” way he expressed the point, while noting that “a SuperPAC run by D.C. insiders and tied to [AIPAC] is spreading ridiculous smears about me because I’m the only candidate who will take on the billionaire class and the pro-war lobby,” 🎧 Listen to the clip below. Lawrence’s full statement is in the quoted tweet.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2076202305523753349/amplify_video_thumb/2076200878315331584/img/J-VHnpZCVbgS9NAF.jpg)
