Battenfeld: Ayanna Pressley the looming bigfoot in U.S. Senate race

Battenfeld: Ayanna Pressley the looming bigfoot in U.S. Senate race

Ayanna Pressley is the looming bigfoot in next year’s U.S. Senate race, capable of booting out incumbent Ed Markey the same way she toppled longtime Rep. Michael Capuano in a Democratic primary challenge. If she follows the same playbook she used on Somerville’s Capuano in 2018, Rep. Pressley will depict Markey as old and stale and herself as part of a wave of younger, fresher and more aggressive Democrats willing to take on President Donald Tru…