Matthew Boyle
Breitbart
September 5, 2018
Longtime incumbent Democratic Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) lost his primary on Tuesday to anti-establishment insurgent Ayanna Pressley in the latest of a series of powerful incumbents to lose to grassroots-fueled outsiders.
Capuano conceded the election early after returns started flowing in, a sign of how badly Pressley defeated him.
And @RepMikeCapuano has conceded to @AyannaPressley. #MAPoli #MA07 pic.twitter.com/mkYuRPhhGQ
— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) September 5, 2018
BREAKING: @AyannaPressley wins race for Massachusetts’ 7th congressional district,
in an upset victory over incumbent @mikecapuano: https://t.co/zpWo83oCaP #ma7 #mapoli pic.twitter.com/De9aEfx2KT— WGBH News (@wgbhnews) September 5, 2018
As @mikecapuano conceded, cheers of “change can’t wait” from supporters here at @AyannaPressley HQ #ma07
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) September 5, 2018
It appears the hard left Democrat Capuano was not leftist enough for even leftist Massachusetts:
.@mikecapuano wasn’t liberal enough for #MA07…?
(graph from GovTrack) https://t.co/4yIoanGgaP pic.twitter.com/rdLBE3REpl
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) September 5, 2018
This win for the hard-left of the Democratic Party against its own establishment comes in the wake of devout socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset win over Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) in New York earlier this summer, a shocker that rocket-fueled the leftist wing of the Democratic Party in a year where establishment incumbents are having a hard time winning re-election.
A glowing profile of Pressley in the New York Times published with a Cambridge dateline just a few days before the primary on Tuesday reveals just how unusual she is:
It’s not a sight you see every day, certainly not around Boston — a black woman mounting a plausible challenge to a 10-term white congressman from her own…