{"id":326056,"date":"2026-11-12T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/326056\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:52:22","slug":"pennsylvania-democrat-representative-says-shes-considering-challenging-fetterman-in-2028-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/326056\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Democrat representative says she&#8217;s considering challenging Fetterman in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean said during an interview that she is considering running against Sen. John Fetterman in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be considering it,\u201d she said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/11\/10\/congress\/dean-considering-senate-bid-01160503\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/11\/10\/congress\/dean-considering-senate-bid-01160503\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">during an interview with the Politico news outlet<\/a>. \u201cI have been concerned about, really, two things, which is his family and his health  and am very disappointed in his activity as a senator and in his votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she is still thinking about it and would have to discuss it with her family.<\/p>\n<p>Dean ran against Fetterman in 2018 when they ran against each other in the Democratic primary to become lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Dean is not the only elected official considering running against Fetterman in a primary. Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Deluzio has also said he was considering a run against Fetterman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m going to do it, I\u2019m doing it to win, and I\u2019m going to win,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/house-democrat-chris-deluzio-reportedly-giving-serious-thought-to-senator-john-fetterman-2028-primary-challenge-rrt\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/house-democrat-chris-deluzio-reportedly-giving-serious-thought-to-senator-john-fetterman-2028-primary-challenge-rrt\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deluzio said last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly two-thirds of Pennsylvania Democrats told The New York Times in August they had a negative opinion of Fetterman.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some reports of Fetterman potentially flipping parties and becoming a Republican, but he has<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/sen-fetterman-says-he-wont-campaign-against-fellow-pennsylvania-sen-mccormick-john-thune-capitol\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/sen-fetterman-says-he-wont-campaign-against-fellow-pennsylvania-sen-mccormick-john-thune-capitol\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> denied all of those reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has sided with the GOP on some matters like support for Israel, but has said in the past he would make a bad Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean said during an interview that she is considering running against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40392,24635,3934,5061,4283,43815,111660,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-326056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-2028-election","tag-chris-deluzio","tag-democratic-primary","tag-israel","tag-john-fetterman","tag-madeleine-dean","tag-party-switch","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326056","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=326056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}