After months of speculation, Rep. Ayanna Pressley said this week that she would not run for Senate, but instead seek reelection to the House next year.
Pressley broke the news in an interview with The Boston Globe , saying that she could potentially run for Senate in the future.
“Ultimately in this moment, I feel called to fight for the MA 7th in Congress,” she told the Globe . “I’m not closing the door to a Senate run down the line, and I’ve never done the work of organizing or movement building just for an election cycle, that’s the work that I do year-round and especially in these unprecedented times, so that work will continue.”
Pressley represents much of Boston and is one of the more notable progressive voices in Congress.
When Sen. Ed Markey announced that he would see

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