Petition to make Ayanna Pressley Speaker garners 58K+ signatures

A Change.org petition requesting that Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) be named the next Speaker of the House has received over 58,000 signatures as of Thursday evening. The petition, released last Friday, was set up by the Coalition for Speaker Ayanna Pressley, “progressive activists from across the country dedicated to electing” the lawmaker to lead her...

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