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.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
    32·
    2 hours ago

    Wow. It sounds both absurd and likely simultaneously! They already spend millions against any progressive Dem, so why not just fund the GOP candidate directly?

    The Dem Party is completely co-opted by neoliberal conservatives and must be demolished and rebuilt if we are to convert it into a progressive party.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 minutes ago

      They already spend millions against any progressive Dem, so why not just fund the GOP candidate directly?

      Can you give me a single example of this DNC (meaning since February 2025) spending money against any progressive?

      Like, is there any reality you’re basing your predictions on?

      Edit:

      Cool, so still nothing the DNC has done, because the DNC doesn’t (and shouldn’t) control state parties.

      Great to hear it’s still just people making shit up

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        31·
        2 hours ago

        They backed Hailey Stevens against Abdul. Most primaries were against progressives. There is usually a bias for encumbents, but a bigger bias to go with AIPAC in primaries. They gave extremely little to Angie Nixon in final senate race (FL). BS against Graham Platner with mediocre support for Maine winner was explicit attempt at losing. That is just the high profile stuff.

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
        1·
        33 minutes ago

        The DNC has notoriously close connections to PACs like Fix The City and Defend NYC that funded Cuomo and ran millions in ads against Mamdani (as a recent, nationally recognized example). All while the DNC conspicuously withheld millions from Mamdani they would normally spend to support any other candidate in his position.

        Those PACs lifted talking points and language directly from DNC leadership, as they always do, because they are deeply intertwined with Dem establishment leadership. Pretending it’s not happening is to side with the billionaires who fund those PACs while also spending excessive time at dinners, events and coincidental vacation destinations with their establishment, neoliberal DNC leadership friends. Are you going to pretend that’s not happening too?

        And don’t get me started on how they’ve famously resisted AOC at every turn, year after year.