The speech, which will be streamed live on the Working Families Party’s Facebook page, comes a day after the Iowa caucuses. Mandela Barnes, who gave the 2019 response. Donna Edwards of Maryland, who spoke in 2018, and Wisconsin Lt. This is the third consecutive year that the Working Families Party has tapped a progressive official to answer Trump. “This is really a love letter to the activists and the foot soldiers who have made the victories possible and who will continue to make victories possible, to really champion and elevate and advance working families.”

“What I intend to speak to is not the strength of our union, per se, but the strength of our movement,” Pressley said in an interview. All three women were first elected to their current offices in 2018. Gretchen Whitmer and, in Spanish, by Rep. Pressley’s remarks will follow the official Democratic rebuttals, which will be given by Michigan Gov. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in the Democratic presidential primary.

Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts will deliver a response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night on behalf of the Working Families Party, a progressive organization that, like Pressley, has endorsed Sen. Photo/Boston Globe/Boston Globe/Boston Globe via Getty Images. 30, 2018, file photo, Pressley visits with seniors at Council Towers in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.

Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts will deliver a response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on behalf of the Working Families Party, a progressive organization that, like Pressley, has endorsed Sen.

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