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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The primary …
The thing you can’t think of is the primary…
You want to explain what exactly can’t I think of?
The answer to the bolded question is: he will challenge him in the Dem primary
Just because his name will be on the ballot doesn’t mean he has a chance to win. A challenge implies a failure state. There is no challenging Fetterman because there’s no failure state to the challenge because Fetterman fails all on his own.
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.