Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028

Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028

John Fetterman, the maverick Democratic senator who has provoked widespread anger by increasingly siding with Republicans, is to be challenged for his Pennsylvania seat by a democratic socialist candidate who is originally from Gaza.

Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028, when Fetterman’s seat is up for re-election.

The move is the first sign of Fetterman’s weakened position in the party since the Democrats won back control of the Senate in last week’s US midterm elections, when the party won at least 54 of the upper chamber’s 100 seats.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    1·
    28 minutes ago

    Will DNC fund his campaign? I mean Fetterman’s of course. Will DNC fund his campaign after he switches to GOP?

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    12·
    3 hours ago

    Worst part about Fetterman is that it’s not entirely clear if his stroke made him Republican or just broke his brain enough to make him go mask off and more extreme with his “not Republican” actual beliefs.

    • paultimate14@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 hours ago

      For about 1.5 years after the stroke, Fetterman’s voting record was one of the bluest in the senate. If anything, it was kind of weird how a guy who campaigned on being different from the usual corporate democrats toed the party line so well.

      The narrative that his stroke turned hin conservative is fun, but does not hold up under scrutiny. I think AIPAC just got to him.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      7·
      5 hours ago

      His MAGA friends will talk him into it. They’ll try to compromise as many Dems as possible, frightening them that the dangers of Socialism are worse than MAGA.

      It won’t work, we’ll just elect more Socialists.

  • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
    202·
    8 hours ago

    What is this framing? Am I out of touch? There’s not challenge here, Fetterman is already done. His position was weakened the moment he decided to betray his constituents. Even his own staff hate him. All he has is his current seat and when it comes to re-election he’s going to bomb out regardless of who he goes up against. I think it’s great that Ahmed Moor is going to run but his fight isn’t going to be with Fetterman. There’s a small chance the establishment dems realize they need to work with the socialists to get anything done but I doubt that’ll happen so the fight will be with whomever the establishment puts in to replace Fetterman.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      13·
      5 hours ago

      We understand that Fetterman’s rep is over, but that isn’t the problem. His replacement by another Dem is not assured. He barely won his seat, remember? We need to replace him in the primary with a great candidate who can beat a post-Midterm Republican, who will almost certainly NOT be promoting MAGA views, thus making him a challenging candidate.

      Fetterman’s seat is going to be a ferocious battle.

      • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 hour ago

        A great candidate who can beat a post-Midterm Republican

        Unfortunately, for the Democrats this means a right wing establishment Dem like Fetterman. In reality, this means a socialist who runs on working class policies.

      • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m disagreeing with the framing in the article that implies Fetterman is somehow in the race (how else are you going challenge him?) when in reality he has no shot at running again.

        • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 hours ago

          Surely his name will be on primary ballots as the incumbent if he chooses to run again. He can decide and file as a Democrat like anybody else who can fill out a form and write a small check to the elections office.

    • yonderbarn@lazysoci.al
      81·
      5 hours ago

      This past election a number of centrists vocalized such a disdain for the left that they would rather a republican win than have a progressive win.

      While he’s not well liked amongst his peers, Israel loves him so that might be enough to keep him in.

      It will not be easy.

  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    11 hours ago

    Biggest regret I have is voting for him and not Kenyatta. I worried too much that the vote would split between Kenyatta and Fetterman and Lamb would sneak in. The vote for Fetterman vs Oz later on was a bit more black and white.

    Part of me would like to see Summer Lee take a shot at the senate, but I also enjoy having her as my rep. One of the few that doesn’t accept AIPAC money, is vocal against ICE (and has been showing up to try and get access to their facilities without warning), and doesn’t stand for Israel’s bullshit. Campaigned for Sanders in '16 and endorsed him again in '20. Great voting record, and has good subcommittee experience.

    • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I worried too much that the vote would split

      This is the fear they use to corral us, one by one. “Bernie is unelectable!”

      • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 minutes ago

        To be fair, at the time both were in the camp with Bernie. Fetterman was a vocal supporter of LGBTQ rights, supporting people on picket lines, a bunch of union endorsements, and his glaring blindspot for Israel wasn’t clear yet. For a time he wasn’t even taking PAC money. I mean Lamb was running ads calling Fetterman a self proclaimed Democratic Socialist, and that sounded fucking great to me. He was also the local candidate for me. He was actually doing hands on work to change the very depressed town of Braddock for the better, in ways no other politician had bothered.

        In the moment it didn’t really feel like the choice between the lesser of two evils.

    • octobob@lemmy.ml
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Hello fellow yinzer, I agree with all that you said. Summer Lee is great. Happy to vote for her