Petition to make Ayanna Pressley next Speaker garners more than 58K signatures

A Change.org petition requesting Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) be named the next Speaker of the House has received more than 58,000 signatures as of Thursday evening. The petition, released last Friday, was set up by the Coalition for Speaker Ayanna Pressley, “progressive activists from across the country dedicated to electing” the lawmaker to lead her…