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Sullivan seeks win similar to Ayanna's in '18
Last Saturday morning, Tan-isha Sullivan was in Mattapan Square firing up several dozen volunteers to knock doors in support of her campaign for secretary of state.
Motivating volunteers on a hot summer morning can be a bit of a lift, but Sullivan had help, with U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and state Rep. Russell Holmes rallying the crowd of volunteers.
"How you campaign is how you govern," Pressley told the volunteers. "Tanisha will be a bold, inclusive, collaborative secretary of state."
Sullivan is taking on 2 8-year incumbent William Galvin in what some political observers say is a long-shot bid. A June poll by UMass Amherst showed Sullivan trailing Galvin with 21% support among likely voters to 35%.
Pressley told Sullivan's supporters that she herself had polled 13 points behind former incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano just a week before the September 2018 primary, but she bested him by 18 points in the actual primary vote.
"Don't ride the roller-coaster," she said. "You cannot poll transformation."
Sullivan is campaigning on a promise to use the office of the secretary of state to expand democracy and transparency in Massachusetts even as Supreme Court rulings and Republican governors and legislatures across the country are curtailing the right to vote. She advocates using the...