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{"id":26738,"date":"2026-08-04T19:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pressley-breaks-with-jeffries-over-missouri-primary-race\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:32:47","slug":"pressley-breaks-with-jeffries-over-missouri-primary-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pressley-breaks-with-jeffries-over-missouri-primary-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressley breaks with Jeffries over Missouri primary race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) has once again broken ranks with House Democratic leadership over endorsements, this time to support former Missouri Rep. Cori Bush over incumbent Rep. Wesley Bell.<\/p>\n<p>In a post to social media Tuesday, Pressley called on voters to elect \u201cchampions\u201d like Bush, who is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/04\/cori-bush-wesley-bell-aipac-primary-01022866\" target=\"_blank\">a heated primary rematch<\/a> Tuesday in a contest that lays bare the party\u2019s divide over Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether in Massachusetts, Michigan or Missouri, we all need politicians who fight for us, not corporations,\u201d Pressley said. Her endorsement comes as voters head to the polls for primaries in both Michigan and Missouri, where progressive challengers are taking on moderate incumbents.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the second time this primary cycle Pressley has endorsed against candidates backed by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). Last month, she joined a handful of other Congressional Black Caucus members to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/27\/congress\/congressional-black-caucus-endorsments-detroit-01012773\" target=\"_blank\">support Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney<\/a> in his bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Jeffries did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Pressley\u2019s endorsement also sets her squarely against the establishment wing of the party: both Bush and McKinney have been endorsed by their local Democratic Socialists of America chapters.<\/p>\n<p>But the endorsement is unsurprising: she and Bush served as members of the progressive \u201cSquad\u201d in the last Congress and often worked together on legislation. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/29\/aipac-2026-elections-cori-bush-00846126\" target=\"_blank\">a previous interview with POLITICO<\/a>, Bush said she and Pressley continued to talk regularly, even after Bell unseated her in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) has once again broken ranks with House Democratic leadership over endorsements, this time to support former Missouri Rep. Cori Bush over incumbent Rep. Wesley Bell. In a post to social media Tuesday, Pressley called on voters to elect \u201cchampions\u201d like Bush, who is in a heated primary rematch Tuesday in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}