(TNS) — Tongues are wagging in Washington where Sen. John Fetterman was spotted dining with two top Trump influencers at a restaurant popular with the MAGA crowd.

According to Politico, Fetterman was dining with Breitbart Washington bureau chief Matt Boyle at Butterworth’s and for about 20 minutes the couple was joined by none other than President Trump’s political strategist Steve Bannon.

The tete-a-tete came as Fetterman lambasted the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests as “anarchy” and lit into fellow Democrats for not being strong enough in condemning violence.

Reposting a viral image of a car ablaze with a person waving a Mexican flag nearby on social media, Fetterman wrote, “My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.”

Officials in Los Angeles have said the violence is limited and under control and that Trump’s decision to send in the National Guard has exacerbated tensions.

Meanwhile, as Fetterman’s political leanings and dining choices shift rightward, some are raising the prospect of the senior senator from Pennsylvania facing a primary challenger in 2028.

Ross Barkan, political columnist for New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, sees an opening for Conor Lamb, the former U.S. Congressman from Pittsburgh who was beaten handily by Fetterman in the 2022 Democratic Senate primary.

Barkan suggests a possible reversal in 2028 with Lamb, who has been outspoken in recent weeks about the absence of Fetterman and Republican Sen. Dave McMcormick on the town hall trail, and once seen as a moderate, running to the left of Fetterman, who is actively being courted by the GOP.

Barkan feels Lamb would offer consistency for the progressive and more moderate base – and funders: straight Democratic party line voting and firm MAGA opposition.

Lamb. 40, has not indicated he will seek the Senate seat, but has been increasingly visible in his home state, even hosting town halls himself to call out Fetterman and McCormick for not doing so.

And just showing up, as Barkan put it, could translate to an effective campaign strategy in turbulent times.

“Lamb could tell voters he would show up for them, in both the halls of the Senate and the towns of Pennsylvania,” Barkan wrote, ”and that might be enough for him to win.”