The woman who beat a 10-term Democratic incumbent in Massachusetts’ 7th District Tuesday night immediately attacked President Trump after her surprise win.
“Our president is a racist, misogynistic, truly empathy-bankrupt man,” Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley told her supporters Tuesday night, according to CNBC. “It is time to show Washington, D.C., both my fellow Democrats, who I hope will stand with us and Republicans who may stand in our way … change is coming and the future belongs to all of us.”
Pressley said she would be a better representative than Rep. Michael Capuano, a white male, in Massachusetts’ only district where the majority of residents are not white.
Capuano served in the House for the 7th District, which encompassed most of Boston, for 10 terms unopposed by any Democratic primary challengers.
Pressley, who is backed by Democratic socialist congressional candidate in New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is facing no Republican challenger in the general elections in November.
The 44-year-old candidate is in the position to become Massachusetts first black woman in Congress.
Democrats would need to flip the House by 23 seats to gain back their majority, and CNBC reports that polls and analyses predicts that Massachusetts nine House seats will remain in Democratic hands.
