Primary targets in the Senate: 2026: Dick Durbin (IL) Gary Peters (MI) 2028: Brian Schatz (HI) John Fetterman (PA) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Chuck Schumer (NY) Maggie Hassan (NH) 2030: Angus King (ME) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) * Shaheen isn't running again. - ThreadSky

slothropsmap.bsky.social • 12 hours ago

Primary targets in the Senate:

2026:

Dick Durbin (IL)
Gary Peters (MI)

2028:

Brian Schatz (HI)
John Fetterman (PA)
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Chuck Schumer (NY)
Maggie Hassan (NH)

2030:

Angus King (ME)
Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)

* Shaheen isn't running again.

Comments

roterote.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Recall Campaigns against all of them immediately.

asfried.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It’s unlikely King ever runs again.

tychobravo.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Who wants to primary Durbin? I'll be a campaign volunteer.

narwhal.swifties.social•10 hours ago

Schatz is the only one I don't get. Thought he was better than the rest on this list.

urocklive1.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Same. That was the one big surprise here.

zvxg.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Damn 2022 was a bust

bri415an.bsky.social•11 hours ago

🤬🤮🤬

marquemaire.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Peters is retiring

donkronenberger.bsky.social•7 hours ago

It’s not just the ten. They were the sacrificial. It’s all of them. Someone could have refused unanimous consent on the time agreement for the cloture vote and gained maybe 30 more hours to fight. Anyone who’s sincere will call for Schumer’s head.

(Crickets)

danifroom.bsky.social•12 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/danifroom.bsky.social/post/3lkejq74vak2z

banjosdad.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Peters is retiring.

jakeryann.bsky.social•12 hours ago

lauren underwood primary durbin please 🫶🙏

noreenlas1.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I guess Dick Durbin is retiring. What a way to go out.

moreanonhandle.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Primary Warner too, not for the cloture vote but for all the bad confirmation votes. Plus we get to do it sooner

brazilbeat.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I absolutely believe these eight did what others would have done if their votes were needed. Primary every single Dem senator. Even the few who are not terrible.

tammybeth.bsky.social•8 hours ago

that's what's grinding on me - Schatz is legitimately GOOD on basically everything and I'd really love to hear how he explains this. He's the massive outlier here.

wvslasthandloader.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yeah, I was surprised by him. But no politician is essential. they are ALL completely replaceable. there are lots of good people who could fill those seats and not be fucking cowards

gm0rk.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I'm gonna throw this out there: Pritzker denounces Durbin and throws full support into whoever tries to unseat him.

What could be better and more effective for Pritzker's brand as someone fighting for progressive values than publicly defenistrating Durbin?

crabbyterry.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Gary Peters isn’t running again

badgramar.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Everyone besides Corey Booker should be primaried and frankly he should face a primary too. No one should go unchallenged. That's why we're here--they do not fear or expect any consequences from voters, so they have no incentive to fight. They gotta go.

evan-devoy.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I believe Gary Peters is retiring too

metacapitalism.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Must be primaried by real Dems.

jeotraveller.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Agree with your sentiments here, but don't see how a primary challenge from the left gets us a better senator than CCM in NV or Hassan in NH if we lose in the general. The rest however...

samusishere.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I would guess Durbin will probably retire and Peters has announced his retirement.

just9n.bsky.social•11 hours ago

These cowards spent all of last year convincing us that the GOP would end democracy then they vote with them and lose all of their leverage. I feel deeply betrayed.

blopeep.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Peters is also not running. The MI seat is an open seat.

aboettger.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I believe Peters is also not running for reelection.

tomscud.bsky.social•12 hours ago

This vote makes it 95 percent Durbin retires.

tomscud.bsky.social•12 hours ago

he was probably like 60 percent before it.

lainiew24.bsky.social•8 hours ago

📌

dannyzemel.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Add Warner to that also. He still answered what he meant by the party getting too woke. Among other things.

realworldrj.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Peter’s is retiring too

rojacaliente.bsky.social•11 hours ago

ethanfletcher.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Peters is retiring.

jsatz.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Peters is not running again either.

slothropsmap.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Gary Peters is retiring, but fuck him either way.

hopstache.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Let’s bully him into resigning before then

slothropsmap.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Yes, thank you to the one hundred people who have replied that Gary Peters is retiring. Gary Peters is retiring. Gary Peters is retiring. Gary Peters is retiring. Gary Peters is retiring. Gary Peters is retiring.

Excellent, now one of you, go run for his seat instead of yelling at me.

xanderoconnor.bsky.social•12 hours ago

quick question about gary peters tho

slothropsmap.bsky.social•12 hours ago

lol you SOB

shadrachnorth.bsky.social•12 hours ago

There's only 34 replies? Or are people dming you too?

socialistexan.bsky.social•12 hours ago

mattsaler.bsky.social•11 hours ago

lol nearly typed it out but thought “eh I should check the replies”. Glad I did

section5.bsky.social•12 hours ago

First question they need to ask Haley Stevens or Mallory McMorrow is whether they will support Schumer as leader.

kingoftheegayz.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Hey did you know that Gary Peters is retiring?

isthisrob.bsky.social•9 hours ago

True, but also Gary Peters is retiring.

urocklive1.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Didn't Shaheen also just announce her retirement?

themightygk.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Big Gretch is taking it.

marcoshuerta.com•8 hours ago

Blue Sky desperately needs an edit button.

popecrocodylus.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Wishing him an extremely short retirement.

tvsjosh.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Fetterman is 100% going to have to flip parties officially. His “Aw shucks, I’m just a normal Joe who supports weed and LGBT” shtick got him there and he’s worked against everyone who voted him in from the minute he got sworn in. Literally anyone could unseat him with minimal effort.

ianmnoone.bsky.social•10 hours ago

King will be 86 by then, if he's still living, so hopefully we'll have a decent chance at a progressive alternative

mlco.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Force them to resign
Earlier

realbeth.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Gary Peters isn’t running for reelection in 2026 the seat is open. Pete Buttigieg was going to run in the seat but he changed his mind this week. We need a woke democrat with a spine!

damagedaddy.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Peters is retiring

2wrongsdm1right.bsky.social•12 hours ago

got it! thank you for posting this.

tzipshmil.bsky.social•12 hours ago

these elections won't happen.

kcl655321.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Schumer shouldn't be running again because he'll be pushing 80 in 28, on top of the fact he's a bought out empty suit incapable of maintaining arousals and leading resistance or getting things done for the American people.

yisrolik.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Peters also retiring

shenaniganwatcher.bsky.social•8 hours ago

📌

radlein.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I thought Peters was also retiring

sababausa.bsky.social•10 hours ago

King ran as an independent in 2012, 2018, and 2024

Who knows what’ll happen by 2030, but there’s no way to primary him out

xboudica.bsky.social•11 hours ago

We will remember which “Democrats” funded the Nazi Regime in America and abandoned their oath to the American people and constitution.

jmteo.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Peters is retiring and Durbin should retire to avoid the embarrassment but I’m team primary everyone.

geenie1234.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Good work. We will see if there is even a semblance of democracy left.

wildforager.bsky.social•8 hours ago

A good half of this list will likely retire anyway.

kevinwoj.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Sure. 2030. I’ll be “absentee voting” from newly-expanded Guantanamo

sergeantstrings.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Every conversation these senators have for the rest of their term should be met with people telling them to resign. Absolutely disgraceful to vote yes on this bill

mckay4senate.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Isn’t Peters retiring

jortscity.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Yeah

greaterlaker.bsky.social•12 hours ago

So we get an automatic primary, which I’m hopeful that Mallory McMorrow will be the one to win. But no one has formally announced yet so I don’t know what we’re looking at.
I’m still shocked Gretch doesn’t want it.

mckay4senate.bsky.social•12 hours ago

If she wants to run for the big seat in 2028 spending time and money on a Senate seat she’d only hold for 2 years would just be a waste.

greaterlaker.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The flipside of that is when she loses for the big seat, she’ll still have something to fall back on.
& she should definitely not run for the big seat. After the last decade, I don’t want to see another woman try for 25 years. We’re just not ready. & yes I voted for Clinton (reluctantly) and Harris.

slothropsmap.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Goddamn it Bill. I quadruple checked this for errors.

annabellelecter.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Well

countessemilia.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I think so. Molly McMorrow has talked about running for his seat.

allyhartwell.bsky.social•12 hours ago

🦋
Democrat Senators on Bluesky to message & unfollow:

HI @schatz.bsky.social
IL @durbin.senate.gov
MA King no Bsky
MI @peters.senate.gov
NH @shaheen.senate.gov
NH Hassan no Bsky
NV @cortezmasto.senate.gov
NY @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
NY @schumer.senate.gov
PA @fetterman.senate.gov

🦋

irisstarr3.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Do you know if we have good candidates waiting in the wings that we should start amping up now?

angeladlewis.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Some of these are very surprising and disappointing

sailorjourno.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Sounds good - if elections aren't turned into performative acts only.

jamesegraham.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Peters is resigning as well, I believe.

misschickpea.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Made this into a graphic y'all. The fury inspired me

vegasgello.bsky.social•12 hours ago

If Dems keep giving in this is what the party will end up looking like...

findingtangle.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Honestly just make all of their lives miserable now. That's what the GOP did.

wvslasthandloader.bsky.social•7 hours ago

we need a name for these fuckers. “Schumer’s Shitstains” or “the Ten Traitors"

davidshere.net•3 hours ago

Can’t actually primary King, but you’ve got Ranked Choice Voting in Maine so you can just run a Democrat in the general

unclequagsire.bsky.social•11 hours ago

If the party of dead Americans is somehow slowed down enough to risk losing momentum at the midterms it'll be nice to get set up for further disappointment.

doomforpresident.bsky.social•12 hours ago

If Durbin doesn't retire I will max donate to his primary opponents and I will travel to Illinois to knock on doors for them.

greaterlaker.bsky.social•12 hours ago

He may have one in @meredithshiner.com .

jaredwr.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Dick Durbin should get primaried. He’s useless and in Illinois - someone better could definitely get elected.

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