Ed Markey wins Massachusetts Democratic primary over Seth Moulton
Congrats to Ed Markey on a shellacking of Seth Moulton. Here’s the takeaway from that race: It’s the policy, stupid. It’s not the youth, the race, the gender, the moniker or whatever. If you want to win, meet the voters where they are. We are NOT in the “middle” of a GDMFT! We want FIGHTERS &
Pam Keith194we want progressive POLICY! There is zero chance that the 2028 Dem nominee will be someone who doesn’t support MC4A or abolishing ICE. Saying it now. If someone wants to be the 2028 nominee, he or she is going to have to stretch the left. Period.
Steed & Peel 2338MA resident here. Markey is a proven fighter & Moulton’s cruel trashing of transgender student athletes was the nail in his campaign coffin. Interesting reveal, we found out in a campaign ad from Moulton that his brother is gay. 🤷♂️
flypusher713.bsky.social29I’ve got no problems with 80 yr olds in congress, as long as they are mentally and physically fit for the job and have good policies.
itsonnow.bsky.social15He better not vote for Schumer
Beowulf Rochlen14Exactly. Not youth. Not symbolism. POLICY. What are you doing for us?
Not of the system10Seth is a blow hard and everyone knew it.
Last night, Seth Moulton became the latest anti-trans Democrat to fall. There is good evidence that his anti-trans positions directly impacted the election - 67% of voters said those positions made them less likely to vote for him. Markey wins in a landslide. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Jennifer G1816Moulton's district office earlier today
Dorri25I wish this would be a wake up call to Amy Acton in Ohio before they end up with Vivek Ramaswamy as Governor!
Arthur H Walker19Being an anti-trans candidate provides one with 3 disqualifying options. 1. You're a fascist or intend to align yourself with fascists. 2. You're stupid, believing fascists won't use the same legal apparatus to oppress trans folks on you. 3. You live under a rock, and don't know what's going on.
FROG ETERNAL14bro if you can't defend trans people... you have no business in government. Literally, hurting no one just make some people uncomfortable for existing. It's the perfect litmus test. If trans people trigger you get the fuck out of the way of leadership.
JWMC (Artist)12Seth lost his hometown too, with only wealthy suburbs of his district (like Marblehead) coming with him
Mara Alis Butler7Being an elder in public service can be problematic but it’s not the only standard we should be looking at when choosing whether or not to (re-)elect somebody. Moulton was uniquely awful on Trans people.
Erin Reed498How long until Moulton joins a Republican cabinet, a conservative news outlet, or is hired by a "abandon your principals" centrist org, or joins one of the anti-trans groups?
Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin103It's not that democrats "won't learn anything from this" its just that democrats would rather lose than actually listen to or support the views of the left wing of their own voterbase.
Darren Buck50Many have said it before, but: This election demonstrated that Massachusetts is a (relatively) safe place for trans people. We must build so much more housing so that trans people (and so many others) can *afford* to come here, be welcomed, and prosper.
Sega CD Pride Month19think dems will learn anything from this lol
🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫17i am once again saying trans support is not a needle you have to thread. there is literally no downside.
Gwendolyn Corvid12Democrats who support trans rights win elections
Brent/Barb 🏳️⚧️10You can grow as much black mold on your campaign image as you want, but the truth is voters on both sides don’t want common ground.
therealWokeKong10Never too late for Amy Acton and Rob Sand to issue public apologies for their comments regarding the trans community and reverse their reactionary policies. If they wanna win they better do it quick though
FoxyRyanx 🌈 🏳️⚧️8Once again, more evidence that wavering on fighting for the rights of transgender people is a bad political strategy, as well as a generally shitty thing to do.
Funny Karate Bear (But Festive)7Hit the six seven on the grave of his career
“If Trump tries to steal the election this year, and he will, we’re gonna need to turn civic action into civil disobedience!!” - Senator Ed Markey, at his Dem primary victory speech last night
marsbrown71.bsky.social2No no no no no...VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!
Politics Explained2Appreciate AZ AG outlining trumps attempts to disrupt midterms and ending main in voting youtube.com/shorts/ClJHY... We need to get this out on social media ASAP
TRUTH MACHINE (she/her)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸💪🏾1Yes, we will. We are all in this together.
Elizabeth Pearce1I would like to know what the swing state governors and AGs are doing RIGHT NOW to stop Trump and team from tampering with the election as he is saying out loud that he is intending to do! @ncgovernor.bsky.social
pnwpirate.bsky.social1#GeneralStrike Or a #TaxStrike Just cut off their money will be enough.
Dr. Kimm1maybe or they will try to steal the election and screw up. that happens a lot.
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning75this is why we reelected Uncle Ed despite his being very very old
Bobby Fucking Weaver 5So like, guillotines with warning labels?
🇨🇦💚💙DomesticMetisGoddess💚💙🇨🇦 Names Jen!4You better get prepared America it’s happening that orange pedo is gonna do everything to steal it .. Elon has said the Dems won’t win in the midterms
OldLadyInAZ 🌵3We go all South Korean on him.
AngrySwede2From the other side of the Atlantic I just cannot believe that americans are still trusting "the system". When neither US constitution nor law matters to the current Shite House, why on earth would the mid-terms do? Wake the fuck up americans!!!
NEW: Seth Moulton lost. Good. Moulton’s willingness to throw trans people under the bus in 2024 showed his character. It’s good he won’t be going to the Senate. Today, at Law Dork:
Policy Vibe · by NoMAGA9If anti-trans positioning costs politicians support, it becomes harder to sell that betrayal as electorally savvy. That incentive matters beyond one failed Senate bid.
Miriam Grace1Thanks for always being our ally Chris
Chris Geidner236It’s a real simple one because it’s a really simple point.
Loren Crowe 🏳️🌈4A good lesson for Democrats would be to try to govern in such a way that your voters don’t erupt into cheers when you are humiliated in public.
All Cattes Are Best Cattes4Every time you mock Seth Moldturd his eyes creep even closer together
Hey, Joan Vennochi: Ed Markey didn't "turn" Seth Moulton's tranpshobic comments into a human rights issue -- they *were* a human rights issue! Comments he never apologized for, by the way. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/01/o...
Gravel Influencer91It's just so pathetic to see pundits like Joan try to make Seth out to be the victim here. He said something horrendous! He could have apologized at any time over the past 18 months and he chose not to. Being transphobic was a choice that he made.
Stoned Feminist14Moulton is generally off putting even without the transphobia. I saw a clip from the Bulwark lady that does focus groups and she said that mass voters talked about Moulton the way people tall about JD Vance
Lennie Brisco County Jr 36There *is* a better way to “debate the issue of transgender athletes” If someone says they have concerns about Trans Athletes, you call them Weirdos and tell them to fuck off.
Mary Nasca19This is so disgraceful. This Globe writer is justifying Moulton’s dehumanizing language about trans folks and children. The very suggestion that his young children would be playing sports with a “formerly male athlete” was intentionally disingenuous and he deserves the loss.
Dan Seitz8Vennochi is never less than contemptible at her best but this genuinely is a new low.
calizaybak.bsky.social3I would like to hear when in reality their little girl getting hurt in this way. The bigots keep saying this and I've never heard of it actually happening. What does kill kids in school are guns, how odd there is no political will to do much about that.
Human rights in scare quotes. How disgusting.
"The larger reason Moulton lost is that he is a career centrist opportunist who kicked Harris while she was down, tried to take the gavel from Pelosi, and consistently blamed the party’s left for Trump’s two victories." Thanks, @joanwalsh.bsky.social
Rebecca Solnit133Moulton tried to make an agist gotcha out of Markey's bland answer about what AI he uses, but it's not about what you use, it's about how you legislate. Markey has been a leader on that front with legislation, speeches, etc. on the issue. p.s. Moulton has lots of defense AI investment.
Señor Sabelotodo2That pretty much checks all the boxes for a loser.
Old School Liberal 🇺🇸 🇸🇪 Its time to obliterate the Epstein Class.2I love this story, and in this case I don’t care if he’s old. This was the right move for democrats and democracy.
Betsy Cazden2The challenge to Pelosi was it for me. The sheer chutzpah of imagining that he could do better than the very best Speaker -- the over-confidence of a middling white man.
Cai1The main reason is more people new Markeys name
Alison Hodges1Yep. Liked him as a rep, could not possibly vote for him yday after his kicking of Pelosi. Besides, Markey good, old ‘= bad.
Khashoggi's Ghost77This. I wouldn't have voted for him for all these reasons and more.
Boston Tom Levenson121 thing I like in today's D party is we're happy to kick assholes when they're down. Good! Politics ain't beanbag Moulton's pretend "progressive" conversion convinced no one. But what's great here is that no one hesitates to point out that he's a pretty sleazy guy regardless of party or views.
Krisi 🏳️⚧️5Throwing trans people under the bus for power should be a losing position going forward but this isn't the last of it.
Here's the NY Times' take on the role of trans politics in Markey's victory, in their "Six Takeaways" piece. A lot of softepedalling here--Moulton didn't just "question" participation, he said trans girls were "boys"; he also gave an interview recently where he walked back his "apology."
Katherine Alejandra Cross60That walk-back was reported in *checks notes* the New York Times just four days ago. I know that for a "Six Takeaways" report, you have to be brief, but framing still matters and it's very notable how they try to whitewash Moulton's remarks to make him seem more pro-trans than he is.
Orion Kidder6Good reminder, too, that the LGBTQ+ vote is 8% or 9% of the vote. That's a lot to either get behind you, by supporting their human rights, or to LOSE by being a huge bigot piece of crap.
"cosmic enemy" "nicole"6"No, no, being anti-trans would've been helpful in other states, to be clear, there's no questions about the strategy"
mallow5can u give a link to the takeback like i dont doubt it, i just wanna laugh at his losing humiliation again
Mr. Miso Paste, Rockall Irredentist4I'm surprised the NYT even mentioned this at all, but unsurprised that they editorialized the explanation to be as mealy mouthed as possible
Geoff A.3Yikes on the first apology even. "I'm sorry if your feelings are hurt" is the classic fake apology. I hadn't realized it was so mealy-mouthed.
Nathan Goldwag 103A pattern that I find genuinely fascinating in these debates is that the "popularist"/moderation/centrist/etc crowd seems to be sincerely offended by the idea that a politician might have genuine liberal principles.
Sydney Bauer23I genuinely think that if pollsters framed transgender women playing sports in terms of gender identity instead of sex assigned at birth, the results would make these writers question their own reality because it would undermine a lot.
Lauren11We are going to win. My most dipshit, probably-Trump-voting-friend was like “oh ok cool” when I came out to him. He texts me “hey lady!” now. Normal people do not actually care, I believe this in my soul.
kate b.10sooner or later people are going to have to realize that LGBTQ+ people are a decent-sized voting bloc, especially in D primaries, and we don’t want a shitty “qualified apology” for transphobic remarks
Jennifer P. Mushrooms2the first paragraph has me seeing red.
Moulton lost basically the instant he made it clear he could not be trusted to fight for trans rights. He lost his home town. He lost by more than Kennedy. He lost in towns Kennedy won. Maybe there's a lesson here.
Victor LaValle68Seth Moulton’s crushing loss was such a nice way to start the day. Thrilled when Democrats who are willing to sacrifice any citizens’ basic liberties is smacked down like this.
Dex Anderson38FYI @kenmartin.bsky.social. We still need to have a conversation about this.
BadToss4Massachusetts has eleventy-billion universities. He probably lost all of them.
Adam Riggio4The people of America seem to know that you must never compromise with fascist politics & bigotry. The consultants do not know this
One thing is clear: ed markey needs to denounce Hasan Parker if he wants to have any chance of winning the general
Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️🌈🏴☠️15Counterpoint: Hasan should carry Markey around on his shoulders like Freddie Mercury and Darth Vader
TJ12For no particular reason here's Hasan in the suite Democrats gave him for the 2024 DNC, interviewing Senator Markey
arroneous4Nah man, anytime anyone asks about Piker just say, Where's Mitch? Who gives a shit about a streamer when we have a missing senator.
Señor Sabelotodo2He also needs to denounce Passan Harker while he's at it!
