For decades, a job as a member of Congress from Massachusetts was one of the safest around. Now a handful of veteran incumbents are keeping a close eye on their left flank
For decades, a job as a member of Congress from Massachusetts was one of the safest around.
"You look at that, and the fact is basically that's a Senate seat waiting for someone to take it. If a name candidate got in today, whether it's Rep. Joe Kennedy III, Attorney General Maura Healey or Mayor Marty Walsh, anybody, Ed Markey would have the race of his life in a presidential year," Marsh said.
"I think people like Ayanna Pressley and [progressive star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and others who ran … [have] shown that there's a path for people with different life experiences and different viewpoints. And the energy and excitement that people have brought to Congress and other positions, I just think it's exciting and new and important," said Doug Rubin, the consultant behind former Gov. Deval Patrick's out-of-nowhere primary victory in 2006 and Sen.
Markey is also reminding voters of his liberal record by pitching himself as a "progressive voice in the United States Senate" and notes that he is a leader of the resistance to Trump, who is deeply unpopular in Massachusetts.
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