00:00A Palestinian-American progressive influencer has come up short in her Democratic House
00:04primary bid in Illinois' 9th district.
00:07So thank you for supporting us.
00:09I'm sorry that this sucks, but Trump, ice, free Palestine, and I love you all.
00:17The election loser, the radical 26-year-old leftist Khad Abuguzale, was running in a crowded
00:22primary of 15 Democrats jockeying to succeed Democratic Rep Jan Schakowsky, who announced
00:28her retirement in May.
00:30Abuguzale, who formerly worked for left-wing organization Media Matters, caused a buzz
00:34among Dems for her hardline leftist views, like instituting universal single-payer healthcare,
00:40stopping mass deportations of illegal immigrants, removing all caps on refugee resettlement
00:46programs, and supporting a sovereign Palestinian state.
00:49During her campaign, Abuguzale achieved minor online infamy for a series of stunts, including
00:54getting herself arrested and charged with conspiracy to impede ICE vehicles during a September
01:002025 demonstration in Broadview, Illinois.
01:03The feds accused Abuguzale of allegedly scrawling the word pig on an ICE officer's vehicle, while
01:09footage of the confrontation showed an officer throwing her to the ground.
01:12The leftist was indicted along with four others on charges of having, quote, conspired to prevent
01:17by force, intimidation, and threat a federal law enforcement officer from carrying out official
01:22duties in a manner seeking, quote, to injure him in his person or property.
01:27The influencer was pressed on the indictment on the Tara Palmieri show.
01:30What do you, when you see that, what do you think right now?
01:34Uh, you know, Tara, once again, this is my first time being federally indicted, like I said.
01:38Yeah.
01:38I plan on pleading, not guilty, the evidence will come out in court, and I plan on winning.
01:43Thank you so much for having me.
01:45Yeah, um, did she just sign off?
01:51Did she just leave the chat?
01:55I'm so confused, I'm sorry, I don't know what just happened.
02:00Um, okay.
02:02Well, she asked, she left because I asked her questions about what happened that day.
02:08Abu Ghazale pleaded not guilty and ripped the charge as a, quote,
02:12attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest.
02:15This is a political prosecution and a gross attempt to silence dissent,
02:20a right protected under the First Amendment.
02:22This case is a major push by the Trump administration to criminalize protest
02:26and punish anyone who speaks out against them.
02:29Abu Ghazale also faced controversy over revelations that she grew up in a $3.3 million Dallas mansion,
02:35despite frequently portraying herself as coming from humble origins.
02:39And when she dozed through a virtual forum, which she blamed on narcolepsy-induced sleep attacks.
02:45Frontrunner, Evanston Mayer, Daniel Biss, ended up taking the primary win,
02:49even after he shockingly admitted a few hours before polls opened to having an ill-advised relationship
02:54with a former student while working as a professor at the University of Chicago.
02:58The former student, Megan Walks Press, alleged that she and Biss had a relationship that crossed
03:02student-teacher boundaries when she was a mathematics and political science major
03:06at UChicago in a Blue Sky and Substack post.
03:10A spokesperson for the aspiring congressman, who also served eight years in the Illinois
03:14legislature and had a failed run for the governor in 2018, said in a statement that
03:19Biss was 26 and Walks Press was 20 when the relationship took place.
03:24He was not married at the time.
03:26Democratic candidates aligned with the far-left legislative squad
03:29went 0 for 6 in Illinois House primary races, with AIPAC calling the endorsements a
03:35quote, kiss of death. Biss will be heavily favored to keep the seat in Democratic hands in November.
03:40A Republican has not been elected to represent the 9th district since 1946.
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