Can an Oklahoma Senate candidate attract voters with an ad tossing out AIPAC ‘trash’?
Oklahoma grassroots activist N’kiyla Jasmine Thomas is facing off on Tuesday against centrist Jim Priest in a Democratic Senate race that has become the latest litmus test for progressive politics in a conservative stronghold. The…
Assessment
A Democratic primary runoff in Oklahoma has become a proxy fight over AIPAC's role in progressive politics. N'kiyla Jasmine Thomas, who ran an ad literally tossing AIPAC-branded trash, is testing whether anti-AIPAC messaging can mobilize voters in a deep-red state. The winner faces long odds against a Republican incumbent, so the race's real significance is as a signal of how far the left's critique of pro-Israel money can travel beyond coastal districts. Watch whether Thomas's 45 percent first-round support holds or grows.