Petition To Make Ayanna Pressley House Speaker Receives Over 75K Signatures

The Representative has not expressed interest in launching a bid to challenge the speakership from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

An online petition has received over 75,000 signatures requesting for a certain person to be the next House speaker.

The Change.org petition was released Nov. 6, set up by the ‘Coalition for Speaker Ayanna Pressley,’ a group of “progressive activists from across the country dedicated to electing” the lawmaker to lead her party in the House. As of Thursday night, the petition received 75,466 signatures. The group says that Pressley “aligns with what the majority of Americans want to see in their government.”

The Representative has not expressed interest in launching a bid to challenge the speakership from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is set to become the country’s first African American speaker at the start of the 120th congress in January. However, the petition comes as some progressive Democrats question Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s leadership ahead of the party’s dominance in both chambers of Congress.