A solid year for progressive Democrats who have defeated at least three incumbents in the U.S. Congress in primaries could fizzle out this week in Massachusetts where three party stalwarts were set to fend off challengers.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Ed Markey walks back to his campaign bus after speaking at a rally in support of the United States Postal Service during his re-election campaign in Newton, Massachusetts, U.S., August 22, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
With the campaign slogan “it’s not your age — it’s the age of your ideas that’s important,” Markey has won the backing of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose own upset primary victory in 2018 led her to become one of the most recognizable faces of the Democrats’ progressive wing.
Berry noted that it is Markey who has effectively managed to claim that spot, thus positioning his opponent — the grandson of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy — as the establishment candidate, even though the men are “two ideological peas in the same pod.”
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