Rep. Moulton challenges Sen. Markey in Massachusetts, calls for new generation of Democratic leaders

Seth Moulton challenging Markey, one of Israel’s leading Senate critics, in high-stakes Dem primary

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) announced on Wednesday that he plans to mount a challenge to Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), grounding his campaign in an argument for generational change. “I just don’t believe Sen. Markey should be running for another six-year term at 80 years old,” Moulton said in his Senate race announcement. “Even more, I don’t think someone who’s been in Congress for half a century is the right person to meet this moment and win the future.…

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton launches primary challenge for Ed Markey’s Mass. Senate seat – argues 79-year-old lawmaker is ‘too old’

“Senator Markey is a very nice guy,” Moulton said, “but he’s been in Congress for 50 years, and he’ll be 86 years old at the end of his next term as...

Congressman Moulton will challenge Markey for US Senate Seat - CommonWealth Beacon

For the second election cycle in a row, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey will face a challenge from a younger Democrat in the state’s Congressional delegation. Congressman Seth Moulton of Salem announced Wednesday morning that he will run for U.S. Senate next year, arguing that Massachusetts cannot wait another six years to install someone from a younger generation in the Senate. The Democrat has not been shy about challenging members of his own party — he w…

Ed Markey’s campaign fundraises off Seth Moulton’s mid-shutdown Senate primary challenge

It’s not the first time U.S. Sen. Ed Markey finds himself facing off against a well-established, younger Democrat in a primary race, and he wasted no time in appealing to his donors over the Senate aspirations of U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton. Moulton, who has represented the Bay State’s 6th Congressional District since 2015, announced early Wednesday that he would challenge the 79-year-old Markey in the primary next year. Markey, who has been running …

Moulton launches Senate primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts

Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, an Iraq War veteran who came to Congress after defeating a nine-term incumbent in a primary, is challenging another fellow Democrat in 2026: Sen. Edward J. Markey.

So Markey has a primary challenger

So Seth Moulton is running for senator in Massachusetts. that would be a primary against Markey. I get that we need new ideas and new blood. But I can’t say I think “new idea” when Seth comes to mind. i expect some here will know him from stating his...