She beat big money and upset some fellow Dems. Who is Swalwell successor Aisha Wahab?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Caste shadow Wahab endured death threats and a failed recall attempt after she introduced a 2023 bill to outlaw caste-based discrimination.
52% : According to Federal Election Commission filings, AIPAC-affiliated independent expenditure committees United Democracy Project, BOLD America, Project 218, SD 2026, Pro-Choice Majority Action and Safer Alameda County PAC spent more than $5 million to support Hernandez and nearly $2.9 million since late July on attack ads opposing Wahab.
37% : Wahab, the only Muslim lawmaker in the Senate, has not been explicitly critical of Israel.
34% : In September 2025, she and Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who is Jewish, introduced a Senate resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
32% : It also criticized the use of civilians as human shields, which Israel accuses Hamas of doing, and called the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack by Hamas, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 kidnapped, "horrific." While candidates' stances on Israel have been lightning-rod features of other contests pitting progressive Dems against moderate ones, neither Wahab nor Hernandez made the U.S. ally's military campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon or Iran an explicit focus of their campaigns.
31% : In a statement to Politico, she bucketed criticism against her as "lies, desperate personal attacks, and racist dog whistles" funded by her opponent's supporters, including the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which poured millions into defeating Wahab.
26% : Dave Min, who also wasn't especially critical of Israel.

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