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WASHINGTON — A month ago, Ayanna Pressley told NBC News she was in “a fight for the soul of our party.” On Tuesday night, she won it.
In a stunning upset in John F. Kennedy’s old congressional district, Pressley, the first woman of color elected to Boston’s City Council, defeated Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., a 10-term incumbent in a high-profile Democratic primary.
Polls had shown Capuano, who has never faced a serious challenge since being elected in 1998, with big leads. But Pressley defied the odds to not just win, but outpace Capuano so decisively that he conceded the race less than an hour and a half after polls closed.
She appears to have done it by turning out young people and people of color, neither of whom typically vote in party primaries. With more than 90 percent of precincts reporting, Pressley had 58.4 percent, or 50,917 votes, to Capuano's 41.6 percent, or 36,234 votes.
"Clearly the district wanted a lot of change,” Capuano told supporters.
Unlike Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., who was caught off-guard when he lost his own primary this summer, Capuano recognized the threat early. And unlike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat Crowley, Pressley has been a rising Democratic star for years.
“Ayanna Pressley is going to be a good congresswoman and I will tell you that Massachusetts will be well served,” the defeated congressman said.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who donated to Capuano's campaign, thanked him for his long service, before saying she looked forward to welcoming Pressley to the caucus. The heavily Democratic district has no danger of falling into Republicans' hands.
Capuano had no whiff of scandal and has a nearly perfect progressive voting record.But he hails from an older, more parochial school of politics which Pressley said didn't cut it anymore in the Donald Trump era.
More importantly, Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District is the only one in New England where racial minorities outnumber whites and Pressley argued she could better represent the Boston and Cambridge-area district than Capuano, who is white.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna906441
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Good, keep going farther left. Don't stop until every Democrat in government is a black, hispanic or gay communist.
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Good, keep going farther left. Don't stop until every Democrat in government is a black, hispanic or gay communist.
That's the "Utopia"
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Good, keep going farther left. Don't stop until every Democrat in government is a black, hispanic or gay communist.
This guy nails it. It is just so glorious seeing their bullshit rhetoric being used against them as they will continue to lose seat after seat.
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Dangerous times.
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If these people are ever allowed to be in charge of the government the United States will cease to exist..........fast.
They're are a bunch of insecure, jealous, hate-filled morons that aren't able to recognize that socialism is a historic failure that leads to dictatorship, starvation and death.
They are like those psychotic people that go out and intentionally try to catch AIDS. Bug chasers I think they are called. They have a death wish.