Ayanna Pressley's Win Is the Biggest Upset Yet for Progressives
There wasn’t much daylight on policy matters between the Boston city councilor and 10-term incumbent Mike Capuano. But she still beat him by 18 points.
Representative Mike Capuano was hoping that Massachusetts voters would opt for his decades of experience over the tantalizing gleam of a fresh face.
They didn’t.
Just more than an hour after polls closed on Tuesday night, the 10-term Democrat with a robust progressive voting record suddenly conceded to his über-progressive challenger, the Boston-city-council member Ayanna Pressley. “Clearly the district wanted a lot of change,” Capuano said sadly to a quiet room full of supporters. “We’ve done everything we could do to get this thing done … I’m sorry it didn’t work
