In 2022, Nida Allam lost to Valerie Foushee by nine points in the Democratic primary for a Triangle-area congressional seat. Allam waited four years to challenge Foushee again for the same seat—and came up short again, but only by less than one point.
Even with that loss, Allam believes that she successfully pushed Foushee to take stronger stances against a proposed Wake County data center and against money from the pro-Israel lobby, which defined the 2022 election, when Allam was massively outspent by pro-Israel and pro-crypto groups that backed Foushee.
This year, in an effort to combat that, Allam got early financial backing from national groups like David Hogg’s Leaders We Deserve and the squad-adjacent Justice Democrats…