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.
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.