# Potential Illinois Democratic primary battle: Newman vs Casten

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 29, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-illinois-democratic-primary-battle-newman-vs-casten/953487 "2021-10-29T21:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-illinois-democratic-primary-battle-newman-vs-casten/953487/1 "2021-10-29T21:44:16Z")

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In case you haven’t been following the Illinois congressional redistricting process, the latest map will hurt Marie Newman.

> <https://twitter.com/shiakapos/status/1454066855178555395?s=21>

Newman has already announced that rather than face Chuy Garcia, she’ll go up against Sean Casten in the new Illinois 6th district.

Should prove to be a very hot primary. Newman is known for knocking off conservative Dem Dan Lipinski in 2020 and then winning the seat in November.

I’ll be supporting Sean Casten in this primary. Casten is well known for his work on climate change.

> **[Climate Change](https://casten.house.gov/issues/climate-change)**
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> Learn about news and information related to Climate Change.

Marie Newman is part of Justice Democrats and is loudly pro Palestinian and anti Israeli. She was one of the votes against Iron Dome.

> **[Full List of Representatives Who Voted Against Funding Israel's Iron Dome](https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-representatives-voted-against-funding-israel-iron-dome-1632385)**
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> Just one Republican member of the House voted against $1 billion funding for Israel's missile defense system.

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-illinois-democratic-primary-battle-newman-vs-casten/953487/2 "2022-06-29T03:04:22Z")

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And down goes Newman!!! So happy to see an anti-Semite like Newman lose.

> <https://twitter.com/marie4congress/status/1541971025272913920?s=21&t=HMq_BYyczdpvuhahf2ZlSA>

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-illinois-democratic-primary-battle-newman-vs-casten/953487/3 "2022-06-29T03:19:47Z")

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I liked her a lot. Oh well.

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-illinois-democratic-primary-battle-newman-vs-casten/953487/4 "2022-06-29T18:21:53Z")

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> [@dalej42](#):
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> So happy to see an anti-Semite like Newman lose.

Cite?

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-illinois-democratic-primary-battle-newman-vs-casten/953487/5 "2022-06-29T19:09:54Z")

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Newman definitely enjoined the anti semitic wing of the Justice Democrats.

> **[Congresswoman accused of adopting anti-Israel stance as bribe to would-be...](https://www.timesofisrael.com/congresswoman-accused-of-adopting-anti-israel-stance-as-bribe-to-would-be-opponent/)**
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> Chicago-area Democrat Marie Newman being probed by ethics office over allegations she hired Palestinian-American as an adviser in deal to get him to drop out of primary

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-illinois-democratic-primary-battle-newman-vs-casten/953487/6 "2022-06-30T02:27:17Z")

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Literally nothing about that is anti-Semitic. Maybe corrupt or illegal…but not anti-Semitic.