Analysis: Pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has spent $100 million on U.S. elections

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent $100 million on elections in the 2022 election cycle.

The Intercept has chronicled AIPAC ’s power through coverage of individual races, but never before has a massive outflow of money been analyzed in sum.

Of the 469 seats up for reelection this year , more than 80 percent : 389 races in total.

The group has sought influence over 363 seats in the House and 26 in the Senate .

The number of members of Congress willing to support conditioning aid to Israel or criticizing human rights abuses has shrunk as AIPAC has increased its electoral spending and put it to work targeting progressive candidates and lawmakers.

The group spent $41.9 million in spending on independent expenditures like ads and get-out-the-vote measures.

AIPAC has shown that it has the power to reach almost every seat in Congress .

The lobbying group also tried and failed to recruit a challenger to Rep. Summer Lee , D-Pa., and she easily won her primary election in April .

Both Bowman and Bush lost in two of the most expensive House Democratic primary elections in history.