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Ayanna Pressley
In recent weeks Pressley has picked up the support not only of Ocasio-Cortez, but of Massachusetts’ attorney general Maura Healey and the national Indivisible group. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Congressman Seth Moulton opted early on to stay neutral — a reflection of Pressley’s local clout.
Now in its final stretch, the twist-filled contest between Pressley and Capuano keeps testing the limits of the conventional wisdom about the shape of today’s Democratic Party. The strength of Capuano has shown that the left-wing fury washing over 2018, and in particular female and young voters, is not always directed squarely at incumbents.
Pressley, 44, is hardly the kind of Bernie Sanders–style democratic socialist crusader as the 28-year-old Ocasio-Cortez — she was a campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton starting early in the 2016 contest. She’s no political neophyte, either. Pressley has served on Boston’s city council since 2009, when she was the first black woman elected to the body, and she previously worked for both former congressman Joe Kennedy and Senator John Kerry.
The homestretch question, then, is whether the party is as attuned to the newly emboldened grassroots as it purports to be, or whether the activist wing will remain a wing rather than Democrats’ new heart.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ants-to-shake-the-democratic-party-again.html
Ayanna Pressley
In recent weeks Pressley has picked up the support not only of Ocasio-Cortez, but of Massachusetts’ attorney general Maura Healey and the national Indivisible group. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Congressman Seth Moulton opted early on to stay neutral — a reflection of Pressley’s local clout.
Now in its final stretch, the twist-filled contest between Pressley and Capuano keeps testing the limits of the conventional wisdom about the shape of today’s Democratic Party. The strength of Capuano has shown that the left-wing fury washing over 2018, and in particular female and young voters, is not always directed squarely at incumbents.
Pressley, 44, is hardly the kind of Bernie Sanders–style democratic socialist crusader as the 28-year-old Ocasio-Cortez — she was a campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton starting early in the 2016 contest. She’s no political neophyte, either. Pressley has served on Boston’s city council since 2009, when she was the first black woman elected to the body, and she previously worked for both former congressman Joe Kennedy and Senator John Kerry.
The homestretch question, then, is whether the party is as attuned to the newly emboldened grassroots as it purports to be, or whether the activist wing will remain a wing rather than Democrats’ new heart.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ants-to-shake-the-democratic-party-again.html
