Ayanna Pressley to deliver Working Families Party's response to Trump's State of the Union

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CNN)Rep. 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. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in the Democratic presidential primary.

Pressley's remarks will follow the official Democratic rebuttals, which will be given by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and, in Spanish, by Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas. All three women were first elected to their current offices in 2018.

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Working Families Party national director Maurice Mitchell said the group wanted to offer a "unique" response to Trump and Republicans and that Pressley was the "perfect" pick because "she represents everything that we believe in."

Her remarks, Mitchell added, would not be a glorified stump speech for Warren.

"This message is for the entire country, not just for folks who identify as progressive or even folks who even identify as Warren supporters," he said. "What we're talking about is a movement that is bigger than any one candidate. But a movement that surely includes Senator Warren."

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What we're talking about is a movement that is bigger than any one candidate

[BlueMTexpat]

1. I'm glad to see this!

[BannonsLiver]

2. So she doesn't identify as a Democrat anymore?

[Dietz]

3. A movement bigger than any one of the candidates

"This message is for the entire country, not just for folks who identify as progressive or even folks who even identify as Warren supporters," he said. "What we're talking about is a movement that is bigger than any one candidate. But a movement that surely includes Senator Warren."