By Nolan D. McCaskill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Seth Moulton, a Democrat who has sometimes bucked his party’s leadership, said he is considering a possible run for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts next year, setting up what could be a high-profile intra-party midterm contest against Senator Ed Markey.
A move by Moulton, 46, to challenge Markey, who has served in Congress for a half-century, would be the latest example of a push for generational change within the Democratic Party, where aging leaders have been criticized for being unwilling to make way for the next generation.
“While I continue to look at the best options to represent Massachusetts moving forward,” Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran first elected to Congress in 2014, said in a statement, “I have not yet made a d