Ben Affleck Is Glad He Never Ran For Congress, Says Ayanna Pressley Would’ve Beat Him

Ben Affleck previously ruled out a run for Congress in Massachusetts, he revealed in a recent interview, saying that Rep. Ayanna Pressley would have beaten him handily. The actor, who grew up near Boston, told The Boston Globe in an interview published Thursday that people in his circle had urged him to run against former Rep. Michael Capuano, who was a 10-term Democratic incumbent when Pressley unseated him in 2018. Advertisement She became the state’s first Black woman elected to Congress. “She probably would have beat my [expletive], so I’m glad I didn’t run,” he told the Globe. “Even though… Read Full Article