text:  A lot of talk about the amount of money that AIPAC put into this race. So AIPAC is the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. It is not, in fact, a branch of the Israeli government. It has frequently disagreed with the Israeli government, most famously in 2015 when the Israeli government was pushing very, very hard against the Iran deal. And AIPAC, which is, in fact, dominated at the top level by political Democrats, did nothing about the Iran deal. But AIPAC put a bunch of money into this race. Why did they put a bunch of money into this race?