Rep. Cori Bush Loses Primary Challenge

Wesley Bell’s victory over ‘Squad’ member Bush, was the second-most expensive primary contest on record. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Another member of the “Squad” is headed out of Congress. On Aug. 6, voters in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District chose Wesley Bell in the jurisdiction’s Democratic Party primary. As the predominantly black and urban district covering much of

Cori Bush, member of “The Squad,” projected to lose primary to Wesley Bell

Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri Tuesday lost her reelection bid to primary challenger Wesley Bell, a St. Louis County prosecutor, the Associated Press projected. When Bush was elected in 2020, she became the first Black woman to represent Missouri, the first nurse and the first organizer from the Black Lives Matter movement in Congress.