The Republican Jewish delegation in Congress can double its length this year, if a trio of competitive races were broken by the Republican Party next week.
Of the 43 Jewish candidates running for the U. S. House of Representatives this year, 10 are Republicans, the two outgoing Jewish Republicans: Lee Zeldin of New York and David Kustoff of Tennessee.
Zeldin faces a complicated challenge. Two other Jewish Republican candidates, Lisa Scheller of Pennsylvania and David Richter of New Jersey, are in races close enough to the third and fourth Jewish members of the Republican Party in Congress.
All applicants have stories to tell: Scheller’s heartbreaking recovery from an addiction that began at age 11; Cathy Bernstein’s compassion for the homeless she finds on the Upper West Side; Mauro Garza, the owner of a gay club that assures conservative Texas that he is a circle of family values; Eric Early’s fix with “Jem and the Holograms”.
Here are the Republican Jews running for Congress in 2020.
Background: A monetary consultant, Bernstein confronts Jerry Nadler, the Jewish chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who has been in Congress since 1992. Much of the voluntary component of Bernstein’s crusade biography is with Jewish organizations, adding pro-Israel groups and Tzedaká defenders. for the homeless, and advocates for the types of complex structural adjustments through liberals, adding greater investment to “compassionately help other homeless people who leave the streets in search of affordable housing. “
Great challenge: homelessness. Bernstein says the already acute challenge of homeless people on the West Side has been compounded by the pandemic, due to the other people the city has moved to hotels and shelters on the Upper West Side. stories about the Liberal community tired of compassion for the encounters they and their young people had. “Not in my backyard” is the tone Bernstein first seems to adopt in his political profile at Patch, the local news site, but then turns to the mentally ill homeless people he met while researching the subject, and his tone becomes compassionate.
Supporters: Bernstein has the initiative of New Journey PAC, a political action committee founded through conservative African-Americans.
Odds: zero. No Republican will win the tenth. Bernstein’s intriguing thing is that he uses his platform to get closer to the plight of the homeless.
Background: Early is a lawyer who has worked on the television production for young people and for the king of splash cinema Roger Corman. In his biography, he says he has written several episodes of “GI Joe” and “Jem and the Holograms”. He boasts his good luck as something typical of American history, born to Jewish immigrants who worked hard to give their young people a chance. His crusade recently spread the lie that the Democrat seeking to overthrow, Adam Schiff, is related to liberal billionaire George Soros. , and then defended himself by saying that Soros is a Nazi sympathizer, himself an anti-Semitic trope.
Big problem: overthrowing Schiff, the scourge of President Donald Trump, whom Early “one of the greatest presidents in the history of the greatest country in human history. “One of Early’s classified ads titled “The Schiff Pandemic” accuses the president of the House Intelligence Community of intensifying the coronavirus pandemic by distracting Americans from Trump’s political trial in January. “Schiff lied, the Americans are dead,” Early says.
Supporters: According to Early’s Crusade website, he has some of the establishment, adding minority parliamentary leader Kevin McCarthy. He also quotes Dennis Prager, the Jewish editor who has been accused of selling alt-right themes in his online videos, as an er.
Possibilities: Virtually none in the strongly Democratic district.
Background: Garza, who seeks to overthrow Joaquín Castro (twin brother of former presidential candidate Julián Castro), has no compatibility with the typical profile of a Republican candidate: he owns an LGBTQ club in San Antonio, Pegasus, known for his drag shows. But he told a conservative defense organization, Texas Family Action, that he was “in full conformity with the Texas Republican Party Platform,” adding “celebrating classical marriage. “Garza’s announcement that he would run has led some members of the LGBTQ network to call his company a boycott. “Every time we spend the hard-earned money at Pegasus nightclub, we pay for our oppression,” protest the peg said.
Big problem: he doesn’t like socialism. ” Fight Socialism and Keep America Great “is one of nine issues on its barebone cross disorders page. An Austin podcaster, Abe Abdelhadi, pressed him a year ago for much of an hour on what he means through “socialism. “Abdelhadi a little frustrated with Garza’s platform. ” What’s going to come with this besides Joaquin [Castro] is a socialist, because honestly, he’s not” (Abdelhadi started the podcast by telling Garza, “You’re like a unicorn, you’re a gay Latino who runs with the Republican price to Congress. “Garza corrected it: “I’m a candidate for the Gay Jewish Hispanic Congress. “Abdelhadi marveled at this fact, which he described as “hilarious”).
Support: The Republican Jewish Coalition does not approve of Garza. USImpact, a conservative political action committee that supports Americans of Indian origin, yes. We don’t know why, however, the Texas-based PAC has this slogan on its website that captions images of Trump. assembly of his Indian counterpart: “Hello Modi”.
Possibilities: The district sent a Republican to Congress.
Background: Kustoff has been in Congress since 2017. Su district covers much of Tennessee’s countryside and small towns, and Kustoff works on each and every corner during the countryside. He told the Jewish Telegraph Agency that his constituents asked him which church he attended. when he tells them he’s Jewish, he says, more than anything they’re delighted. Kustoff and Democrat Steve Cohen are two Jews representing all of Memphis, and it was known that the gossip of the Israel Temple manifested when they found themselves on the plane back Washington, DC Kustoff was also the Republican Jew appointed in 2019 to embarrass Democrats by anti-Semitism in a confusing parliamentary maneuver; became opposed to him.
Big problem: The first element on Kustoff’s crusade disorders page is “Support Trump’s agenda,” and Trump’s call seems to be 10 times on the page. Kustoff does not initiate much legislation; Your Congress’ question page focuses on other lawmakers’ projects.
Supporters: The Kustoff Republican Jewish Coalition, which confronts a Democratic rival named Erika Stotts Pearson.
Possibilities: Kustoff District is a forged Republican.
Background: Loomer is a right-wing, self-proclaimed “Islamophobic” provocateur who has worked for several conservative news sites. She told the JTA that she was first moved when outgoing Jewish Democrat Lois Frankel didn’t help her. In his fight against social media platforms that had banned her, Loomer had been banned not only on Twitter and Facebook, but also on travel sharing because it was not easy for him to refuse Muslim drivers. the soul of the heavily Jewish neighborhood, with Loomer calling Frankel an unpleasant Jew and spraying frankel with Yiddishism. He said Democrats were “driving the Jews into the fuel chamber” so they wouldn’t do enough to overwhelm the anti-Semites in their ranks.
Big problem: Loomer said she has an Islamophobic component because of the way she says Muslims treat women.
Supporters: The local Republican Party and President Donald Trump, whose Mar-a-Lago residence/club is in the district and who hates the fact that their congressman is a Democrat. It does not approve: the Republican Jewish Coalition, which rebuked through Loomer.
Odds: An October ballot shows that Loomer loses 2-1; however, Trump’s direct vote on the user this weekend can count the president among his votes.
Background: Lawyer and businessman, Mitris and his wife Slagana are the main participants of the Jewish community of Rochester. During the election campaign, he talks about the escape of his circle of relatives from the fascist takeover of Greece in 1968, when he was 8 years old, and the Flight from the circle of relatives of his wife from communist Yugoslavia. The Democrat and Chronicle reported that it was difficult to discern the differences in politics between Mitris and the incumbent Democrat he is challenging, Joseph Morelle, in his October 7 debate. That’s because Mitris is much more liberal than the Republican Party. It opposes the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, says “black lives matter” and supports safe gun controls.
Big problem: bipartisanship. Yes, virtually every candidate for Congress commits to crossing the aisle, but Mitris makes it his most sensible precedent on his crusade’s website.
Supporters: None of Monroe County’s Republican and Conservative parties.
Possibilities: The district has once moved back and forth, but in years it has been a solid democrat. Morelle, a rookie, won 59% of the vote in 2018.
Background: Richter, who seeks to overthrow Democratic incumbent Andy Kim, runs an asset control company of the same name after retiring in 2017 as CEO of a structure control company founded through his father, Hill International. The company had been in a crisis due to the 2008 recession. and the 2011 Arab Spring – Hill had a really large business in Lithrougha – and an activist investor insisted on Richter’s departure. In an announcement, the Democratic Congressional Crusade Committee launches what appears to have been a non-exceptional transition by saying richter over-made up for it, corporations wasting millions, a sign of Democrats’ concern that the district, which has a tendency to be a Republican, will simply go backwards.
Big challenge: no challenge for singles. The challenges page of your online page is a series of one-paragraph summaries of typical Republican political positions: less public spending, secure borders, tax cuts. One of the few challenges to gain more area is the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, which Richter criticizes and attributes to Kim, who for a time was a White House adviser on Iraq and had little or nothing to do with the Iran deal or Israel’s policy. Richter’s online page also accuses Kim of advising Obama to authorize a United Nations Security Council solution condemning Israel’s policy of agreements; Kim had been out of government for over a year at the time.
Supporters: The Republican Jewish Coalition supported Richter.
Possibilities: Richter opposes Kim: Cook’s political report evaluates the district’s “slender democrat,” just below the “launch. “
Background: Scheller is president and president of Silberline Manufacturing, a company founded through her grandfather who manufactures paints and coatings. He also runs a café that employs recovering drug addicts, reflecting his candor over his struggles with addiction, from 11 to 22, adding heroin. , and survived a violent boyfriend who beat her almost to death. She opposed incumbent Susan Wild, which turned her into a career between two Jewish postulants in a region with fewer than 10,000 Jews. On October 22, less than two weeks before the election, Scheller organized an “Night on Israel and Jewish Politics. “He speaks Hebrew fluently and has a house in southern Israel.
Big problem: employment. Scheller says the Green New Deal, an environmental reform package favored through progressive Democrats, would be a task killer and charge each and every family in Lehigh Valley up to $75,000. Wild says he supports the goals of the Green New Deal, which would update fossil fuel tasks with blank energy tasks, but not necessarily how he intends to get blank energy.
Support: The Scheller Republican Jewish Coalition.
Possibilities: Cook’s political report includes the seventh in his competitive careers, but he calls him a Democrat.
Background: Streicker runs a genuine real estate company and, if elected, would be one of the 10 richest lawmakers in Congress. She is director of the Jewish Museum and the Emanu-El Temple in New York. He confronts Rosa DeLauro, one of the leaders of the Democratic caucus in the House, who is married to Jewish Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg. In an ad, Streicker accuses DeLauro of his workplace to “fill his pockets,” probably a reference to the money Greenberg earns by pressing the Democratic Party. Streicker has his own problems, having paid fines for violating hiring regulations.
Big issues: cutting taxes, reforming fitness and preserving social networking for the elderly. The challenge page of his crusade gives no details, but the mere fact of intensifying the defense of rights identifies Streicker as a moderate in his party. Trump and supported the right to abortion. She said she would enroll in the bipartisan challenge resolution caucus if elected.
Supporters: In one of the classified ads on his crusade – Streicker spends a lot on his own crusade – he portrays Democrats as lenient on crime, and the Connecticut Fraternal Police orders him.
Possibilities: great. DeLauro is so sure of herself that she has even bothered to post ads. The applicants first met in a debate last Thursday at the Jewish Community Center in Woodbridge. Analysts say Streicker could prepare for a long-term electoral candidate if Republicans regain their prestige in the Northeast, where they have all disappeared.
Background: Zeldin has represented his district since 2015; when he graduated from law school at age 23, he was the youngest attorney in New York State; an army veteran, became a de facto spokesman for the Republican Party on military matters. israel’s main defender, making him the president of Israel’s Republican Caucus. Along with Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Zeldin co-sees the Hanukkah Congress Party at the Library of Congress.
Big problem: defending Trump. Zeldin played a leading role in attacking the political trial hearings of House Democrats. He was appointed to the defense team for the Senate trial, which is rare for a young member of Congress in his third term. To what extent was Zeldin committed to protection?Trump called on the next Republican-led House to erase Trump’s political trial, which would possibly not even be possible. Trump gave Zeldin his last compliment, resounding to him dozens of times.
That’s before the pandemic: Zeldin talks slightly about Trump in those days. In a women voter debate on October 19 with wannabe Nancy Goroff, Zeldin did not mention Trump once and was careful to express Trump’s pro-Israel achievements in a passive voice. Israel has been transferred to Jerusalem; The United States has identified Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” he said. Complete standardization of newly announced relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, recently announced between Israel and Bahrain, other countries are also joining them. “
Supporters: Zeldin has the pro-Israel primary teams NORPAC and Pro-Israel America, as well as the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Possibilities: Zeldin feels the heat: polls show him side by side with Goroff. Zeldin was expecting a repeat of his close fight in 2018 with Perry Gershon, a financier; his crusade was so bewildered when Goroff beat Gershon in the primaries, that day Zeldin did not mention it and it took him weeks to mount negative attacks against him.
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