St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell announced Monday he will drop his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley in 2024, and will instead make a run at a fellow Democrat — U.S. Rep. Cori Bush.
Bell, 48, will oppose Bush in the 2024 Democrat primary for Missouri's 1st Congressional District seat that covers St. Louis and part of St. Louis County. The decision comes as Bush has taken criticism for her response to the Hamas attack on Israel, including her call in a social media post to end "U.S. government support for Israeli military occupation and apartheid."
Bell said he was changing course, even though he felt he was the Democrat best positioned to defeat Hawley — a tall task in conservative Missouri. Bell said several people around the state urged him to run for Congress instead."Understand this unique place that we are with the world literally on fire," Bell said. "I think that we need to make certain that we are providing that effective leadership, not only in our district but in D.C. and on the world stage.
On Oct. 11, McCaskill posted on X a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story headlined, "St. Louis’ Cori Bush draws fire for statement on Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel."In the Democrat Senate primary, Bell was positioned against four other candidates. The projected front-runner is Marine veteran Lucas Kunce, who launched his campaign to unseat Hawley in January, on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
The shooting led to months of unrest. Bush was a vocal leader of many of those protests. In Congress, she has been an advocate of shifting money from police and using it for things such as mental health and social services.
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