{"id":324751,"date":"2026-11-10T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324751\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:22:12","slug":"philadelphia-raised-ahmed-moor-challenges-john-fetterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324751\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia-raised Ahmed Moor challenges John Fetterman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EmmaPHILADELPHIA \u2014<\/p>\n

Senator John Fetterman is now facing the first challenger for his seat. <\/p>\n

Ahmed Moor was born in Gaza, Palestine, but grew up in Philadelphia. He announced on Monday he is running for the United States Senate to unseat John Fetterman. <\/p>\n

Moor’s campaign is focused on stopping funding for foreign wars and starting funding for Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n

Moor lives in West Philadelphia with his wife and three kids and has a background in journalism and public policy, according to his campaign page. <\/p>\n

Unlike Fetterman, who has shown support for Israel, Moor is critical of the war in Gaza. <\/p>\n

“A few years ago, my birthplace was turned to rubble in a genocide funded by our tax dollars, with the support of politicians on both sides of the aisle who can’t find money for transit or removing asbestos from our schools,” says Moor on his campaign page. <\/p>\n

You can read more about Moor’s campaign here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Senator John Fetterman is now facing the first challenger for his seat. Ahmed Moor was born…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[131346,10093,131527,131526,131520,676,456,131522,5061,4283,21575,131524,131521,3766,28,69,71,70,131523,131525,49987,1129,131519,19988,16909,2920,4717,446,877,2812],"class_list":["post-324751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ahmed-moor","tag-campaign","tag-first-senate-seat-challenger","tag-foreign-war","tag-foreign-wars","tag-funding","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-palestine","tag-israel","tag-john-fetterman","tag-journalism","tag-moor","tag-moor-for-senate","tag-palestine","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-raised","tag-philadelphia-raised-ahmed-moor","tag-politician","tag-public-policy","tag-senate-challenger","tag-senate-race","tag-senate-seat","tag-support","tag-united-states-senate","tag-war-in-gaza","tag-west-philadelphia","tag-wgal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}