He isn’t wrong to consider challenging U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, as the Globe reports. But Seth Moulton would be wrong if he decides to actually go for it, for all the reasons I thought it would be a mistake for Jake Auchincloss to challenge Ed Markey, i.e. he’d lose in a primary system favoring the incumbent progressive candidate, even if that incumbent progressive candidate will be 80 years old next year. … But will Moulton, a moderate liberal, nevertheless go for it? Well, he’s already shown he wants to move up the political ladder, and look how that ended. I.e., Moulton isn’t the type who lets a likely outcome get in the way of his ambitions.

Update — 9.26.25 – The Herald’s Peter Lucas agrees that Markey will be hard to beat. … Btw: Has anyone corned Ayanna Pressley yet about her intentions? Just wondering.