Pennsylvania’s Working Families Party is making plans to support a primary challenge to Democratic Senator John Fetterman when he is up for re-election.
The state party announced on Tuesday, Nov. 18, that they plan to start recruiting “working class leaders into a candidate pipeline” as well as volunteers and raise money for a challenge in 2028.
“We deserve real working class leadership in the U.S. Senate. Senator Fetterman has sold us out, and that’s why the Pennsylvania Working Families Party is committed to recruiting and supporting a primary challenge to him in 2028,” Shoshanna Israel, the Mid-Atlantic political director Working Families Party, said in a statement.
Israel also wrote that Pennsylvanians “deserve a Senator who won’t enable Trump or vote with Republicans to rip health care away from over 400,000 of our neighbors.”
NBC10 reached out to Senator Fetterman’s office for a comment and has not yet received a response.
It’s the latest critique from the left of Fetterman, whose votes with Republicans on budget bills to end the government shutdown and whose stance on Israel and votes in support of some Trump nominees have frustrated progressives. The announcement is one of the first official moves to lay the groundwork for a primary challenge to the state’s senior senator.
The Working Families Party did not support Fetterman in the 2022 primary but later worked to get him and other Democrats elected in the general election.
The party, which has both put up its own candidates for election under the WFP banner and backed Democrats in the region, launched an online portal to recruit candidates and volunteers for 2028 races. The webpage puts out a call to action to “HELP PA WFP PRIMARY JOHN FETTERMAN.”
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