Sure, losing one’s fourth election in a row is tough.
But have you ever seen a Democrat go out this ugly?
Here’s California’s 48th district congressional once-and-former frontrunner, Ammar Campa-Najjar, on his X account in the wake of his third place finish for the congressional seat he thought he had a lock on:
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What a wretched, resentful, self-pitying, exit statement. And no, I don’t believe him when he says he’s done with politics, he seems to want power too much, without having much to offer, so he will probably be back.
His whiny farewell opens up with a claim about challenging Rep. Duncan Hunter, Jr. who had gotten indicted after Campa-Najjar had thrown his hat into the ring, so he didn’t exactly enter that race over the ‘corruption’ issue, which amounted to campaign rules irregularities he himself is no stranger to. The voters elected Hunter anyway, indictment and all, because they sure as heck didn’t want him as their congressman.
He flip-flopped around on his positions, playing moderate, but veered into radical extremism after consorting with his girlfriend, Rep. Sara Jacobs, an airhead extremist who happens to be an heiress, did another congressional run, then packed his carpetbag for Chula Vista and ran for mayor there on year six, despite never having lived there. He lost to a Republican in that city where Democrat registrations topped Republican registrations two to one. Now he’s run in the newly gerrymandered congressional district 48, which had been held by Rep. Darrell Issa, a rock-ribbed Republican, and getting the seat once again was supposed to be a clinch. Except that the ring eluded him and he lost again, even with the odds, once again, stacked for him.
He suggests he’s a helpless victim, though, seemingly admitting for the first time that his Mexican grandparents were illegals, being that they were supposedly terrified of ICE, and never mind that Mexico is a hop skip and jump from the San Diego border and pretty easy to get in and out of. Obviously, he’d been hoping to get his licks in on ICE on the way out. See, we are supposed to pity him because his illegally present abuelos were afraid of ICE and therefore we should defund the police and open the border instead. Never mind all the problems caused by mass illegal immigration. It’s all about him.
It’s not the selling point with voters he thinks it is.
Then he waxes about the mosque massacre in San Diego two weeks ago, claiming his ‘friends’ were gunned down there.
I was at the mosque shortly after the massacre talking to the locals about their community, and nobody brought him up as anyone they’d remembered; he wasn’t a ‘favorite son’ candidate. I seriously doubt he knew the people who had been victims, given their differences in age and that only one had been a longtime member, so it’s likely the other two had not been members there when he was there as a kid from 2001 to 2003, before moving to the Gaza Strip with family, where his grandpa just happened to be a Munich Olympics massacre mastermind, making him a celebrity in Gaza.
Up until now, he had claimed he was a Christian.
His inauthencity to voters was as obvious here as his flip-floppy positions, and his residences.
Then his resentment came to a full boil as he brought up Jews, obliquely, of course, as responsible for his election loss, saying that his Palestinian identity: “invited the ire of outside and foreign influences that would alter the course of this election and upend our consistently leading campaign.”
Obviously, pro-Israel lobbies would have loathed him, not because he was ‘Palestinian,’ as he claimed, but because he was the grandson of a major global terrorist and founding member of Fatah who had massacred Israel’s Olympic team in the most heinous way possible at the 1972 Munich Olympics, inspiring ever-fouler terrorist acts around the world. Campa-Najjar paid lip service to being against terrorist violence a couple times when asked, but also called his grandpa ‘a legend.’ San Diego conservative political activist Amy Reichert, who has known him for years, said his dad suggested he was glad he didn’t grow up to become a terrorist, sounding as though that was a potential problem with him in an expose on her X feed.
He didn’t change his stripes any with his endorsements of Adam Hamawy and Abdul El-Sayed, two truly nutty Islamofascist extremists who won their primaries in migrant-heavy districts.
Hamawy is famous for his association with Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheik who organized the 1993 World Trade Center attack, defending him in 1995, and taking trips with him. He won his primary for Congress in New Jersey.
Abdul El-Sayed, who also won his primary in Michigan, is another piece of work: He justified a synogogue massacre by saying the terrorist had lost other family members in Israel’s strikes on Lebanon terrorist camps, campaigned and traveled around with antisemitic commentator Hasan Piker, and called Israel’s elected leader ‘just as evil’ as Hamas.
I had to look up who ‘Rudy Villegas’ was, and found nothing. There was, however, a ‘Randy Villegas’ who was running for a congressional seat in the Central Valley of California, and placed second behind incumbent Republican Rep. David Valadao. He had been targeted by pro-Israel groups for anti-semitism and a hate-Israel stance, so given the others, that’s probably who he is.
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The guys he’s championing now in the wake of his defeat are flaming antisemitic extremists — and only those.
So much for his stance as ‘Mister Moderate.’ Which brings up the phoniness issue once again.
Campa-Najjar obliquely complains about ‘foreign influences’ and ‘Super-PACs and shell organizations advocating for a foreign government,’ which is obviously Israel as that’s the only nation he’s been naming as not wanting to see him in Congress in other recent tweets.
But he whimpers and whines about all those dreadful Jews who don’t want a terrorist’s grandson in Congress, at least until he makes a convincing case that he’s against terrorism. His lukewarm claims to be against it, and the company he keeps in Villegas, El Sayed, and Hamawy tell a different story.
No, what he’s upset about is that those extremists won in their districts populated by urban leftists and new arrivals, and he lost; they who have openly crazy Islamofascist values, while he ran in districts that have no such populations, pretending to be moderate, given that these districts find Islamofascism repulsive.
‘Consistently leading? By whom? He had more name recognition because he’d run so many times before. Buzzfeed feted him as ‘hot guy running for Congress’ in 2017. But that is not the slam dunk for a win that he thinks it is, given that he had been rejected by voters so many times.
Seriously, would the 20,000 Jewish residents of Palm Springs, who are usually Democrat voters, and the back-county cowboys of San Diego’s east who vote conservative even if a conservative is indicted, find him a good fit for their district? He’s a guy who’s never even lived there. Why did he think he would be attractive to them at all as a candidate? What could he offer them?
The candidate who took the most votes — by far — Republican Jim Desmond — has known and assisted and advocated for the area for many years as a county supervisor. The locals knew he would deliver the goods, because he was always the only one on the Board of Supervisors who ever did deliver the goods to the neglected area, and who consistently stood up for them when the blue city urbanites among the ruling political elites ignored them. He was interested in them, and not just at election time. He was an easy choice and cruised to a commanding first-place position even in the district that had been rigged for Democrats by a two-to-one margin against the top-finishing Democrat, Marni von Wilpert, as well as Campa-Najjar.
But it doesn’t stop his self-pity. The kicker is his spoiled-brat lecture to voters that ‘true patriotism means loving your country even when it doesn’t always love us back.’ So he’s the great patriot, see, and the rest of us are these bad anti-patriots who don’t love him back. Like Michelle Obama, he associates patriotism with himself, and it’s quite a specter to have a guy who constantly talks about his migrant family lecturing the longtime voters on patriotism. The nerve of this guy.
His passive-aggressive resentment continued with his retweet of this tweet:
Ammar is one of a kind. If voters could have heard him clearly — without the noise and bullshit introduced into the atmosphere by his opponent and the $4M+ spent against him — he’d be the next congressman for the new CA-48.
— Mike Lavigne (@broadcastmike) June 3, 2026
And yeah, IDGAF — he’s a NAVY OFFICER. https://t.co/cVpDHWpXjb
Lavigne says he “doesn’t give a f***” and Campa-Najjar is a “NAVY OFFICER,” even though the Navy and many veterans had corrected him during the campaign that he was a ‘Navy Reserve Officer’ and to claim otherwise was inflating his resume. The Navy told him not to do it, but he retweeted that tweet anyway, so obviously, he doesn’t care what the Navy thinks, rules and regulations, and all that, he wants everyone to think he’s a Navy Officer instead of Navy Reserve Officer, which is astonishing insubordination. Now he scolds the country for not loving him enough.
What kind of a clown is this? This is the most egotistic, self-pitying, self-regarding, resentful concession speech I’ve ever read. What a loser.
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Image: Screenshot montage from X