Ayanna Pressley, a 44-year-old Boston city councilor and former John Kerry staffer, defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. Michael Capuano in Tuesday's Democratic primary election in Massachusetts's 7th Congressional District.

This is the congressional seat once held by Speaker Tip O'Neill and John F. Kennedy.

Her campaign slogan was "change can't wait."

Here is her stepdaughter's reaction to her victory.

To quote today's New York Times, “she argued that her life experience — her father struggled with drug addiction and was incarcerated for most of her youth, and she is a survivor of sexual assault — better prepared her to help people who have lived through trauma and other struggles. Perhaps the defining line of her stump speech was this: "The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power."

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September 5, 2018

Post Script. Hillary speechwriter @DanSchwerin wrote this tweet yesterday: Remembering way back in early 2015 when @HillaryClinton said @AyannaPressley and @staceyabrams were the future of our party: "true rising stars, the kind of creative, passionate leaders we need." She was right!