AIPAC’s $4.4 million gamble on a California special election

AIPAC is pouring an eye-popping $4.4 million into an obscure California special election, spending heavily to defeat a Democratic state senator who won the primary by 26 points for a congressional seat that will be occupied for only a few months. The extraordinary spending against state Sen. Aisha Wahab has transformed the Aug. 18 contest to…