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.

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    It’s very funny to remember that Fetterman was considered the furthest edge of leftist politics when he ran originally

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      PA resident here.

      We basically had to choose between Fetterman and a TV personality that essentially bought property to pretend to live here. It was never a good set of choices and while there were people being very vocal about Fetterman always being kinda sus, even before his stroke, We REALLY didn’t want OZ.

      Personally, I’m constantly pissed-at and disappointed-by Fetterman, but at least he’s PA trash. not LA trash pretending. The bar is on the floor, but at least he’s our disappointment and that matters.

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        We REALLY didn’t want OZ.

        Idk who “we” is in this story. Dr. Oz got 2.5M votes - 47% of the total.

        He did better by percentage than Beto did against Greg Abbott in 2022, as a point of comparison.

        Personally, I’m constantly pissed-at and disappointed-by Fetterman, but at least he’s PA trash. not LA trash pretending.

        It was very funny to watch Vivek shit himself in Ohio this year (in an extremely winnable historically red state) thinking he could just carpet bag and cake walk to the governor’s mansion.

        Seems like California is just a fountain of dogshit conservatives thinking they can buy offices in Midwestern state capitals.