Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s shock victory over New York Rep. Joe Crowley delivered an adrenaline shot to Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley’s campaign to upset Rep. Michael Capuano this fall.
The parallels aren’t hard to miss: Like Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley is a woman of color challenging a 10-term white male who represents a majority-minority district. And the two women have made common cause in recent weeks. Ocasio-Cortez called on Massachusetts voters Wednesday to “vote her in next,†referring to Pressley.
The Pressley campaign says it’s seen a burst of interest over the last 24 hours thanks to the Ocasio-Cortez victory. Website traffic at AyannaPressley.com has spiked 56 percent – most of which came from people Googling Pressley, and the candidate has gained 4,000 new followers on Twitter and at least 100 new small-dollar donations. That’s on top of new volunteers streaming into the recently opened campaign headquarters in Jamaica Plain. They’ve “been putting folks who didn’t know ‘AP’ yesterday to work all day,†according to Pressley campaign manager Sarah Groh.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/ayanna-pressley-primary-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-680623
