Anti-War Democrats Already Rolling Out Campaign Ads Decrying Iran Attacks

Just two days after President Trump launched a series of attacks on Iran, one North Carolina Democratic congressional candidate is already decrying the strikes in a new ad. The candidate denouncing the strikes, Durham County commissioner Nida Allam, is challenging a sitting congresswoman in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Mr. Trump launched the first wave of missiles against Iran early Saturday morning. Within 24 hours, several top officials, including the country’s supreme leader and the nation’s defense minister, were dead, and several other key military assets destroyed. Now, with at least six servicemembers having lost their lives and Mr. Trump predicting a month-long conflict, Ms. Allam is going after her opponent for taking corporate donations from AI companies and weapons manufacturers who do business with the Pentagon. “I’m addressing you directly because President Trump just used our taxpayer dollars to bomb a school in Iran, killing over 100 elementary school children and starting another endless war abroad,” Ms. Allam says in the new ad, which is shared across her social media platforms. “This is reprehensible and I strongly condemn it.”Ms. Allam is looking to unseat Congresswoman Valerie Foushee, a two-term representative who is being backed by millions of dollars in outside spending, much of it from AI developers, weapons manufacturers, and the cryptocurrency industry. Ms. Foushee has decried the strikes on Iran as an “unconstitutional” action which will put “our servicemembers in harm’s way.”In her ad, Ms. Allam hits Ms. Foushee’s supporters for using these corporate donations to attack her ahead of the primary. “As election days approaches, you will see nearly $2 million of ads from my opponent funded by AI-backed super PACs, the same AI corporation who powered Trump’s attack on Iran,” Ms. Allam says, referring to Anthropic, which the Pentagon stopped working with in recent days. The outside spending group in question, Jobs and Democracy PAC, has received money from Public First Action, a political group which received $20 million from Anthropic. Ms. Allam, in her ad, also calls out Ms. Foushee for receiving support from Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics, three of the largest weapons manufacturing companies in the United States. According to one estimate from the Durham Dispatch, Ms. Foushee has received only $21,000 from weapons manufacturers during this campaign cycle. “I wanted you to hear it from me personally: I will never take a dime from defense contractors or the pro-Israel lobby. I have opposed these forever wars my entire career, and I hope to earn your vote to be your proudly uncompromised pro-peace leader in Washington,” Ms. Allam says in the ad.

Anti-War Democrats Already Rolling Out Campaign Ads Decrying Iran Attacks

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