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.

  • kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    Interesting. I always wondered why Ron Paul seemed so much more popular than other Libertarian candidates

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      So I later found out he had a troubling level of a racist past with the John Birch Society… but at the time, I didn’t know that, I was raised Republican, and I knew the wars were wrong, before I even got out of high school.

      I can’t speak for everybody that was part of it, but it was basically that simple for me.

      And Paul ran in the Republican primaries, not the Libertarian Party.

      If we could get any major candidate in 08 to be staunchly anti-war, that was my main goal. The Libertarians obviously did not stand a chance, after seeing what had happened with Ralph Nader mostly acting as a spoiler candidate.

      Paul also, being a paleoconservative, did (/does still?) genuienly believe that the abortion debate should be settled at the state level, not federally banned.

      At the time, that seemed to be the most sensible position to me in general, certainly out of all the possible Republican choices for presidential nominee.

      Transcript of a primary debate:

      https://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ron_Paul_Abortion.htm

      GINGRICH: When government provides a morning-after abortion pill [under ObamaCare], you inevitably move towards tyranny.

      PAUL: Actually, the morning-after pill is nothing more than a birth control pill, so if you legalize birth control pills, you really can’t separate the two. They’re all basically the same, hormonally.

      Ron Paul is/was literally an OB, he was a doctor, who’d delivered 100s of babies. Compared to every single other Republican nominee… he actually knew what he was fucking talking about in regards to abortion/women’s healthcare.

      • Trad Wench@thelemmy.club
        2·
        16 hours ago

        He also was the first major politician to talk about the concept of “blowback” regarding 9/11 being the inevitable result of the U.S. military involvement in the middle east. He was truly anti-war to the core.