Forget Seth Moulton.

It’s Rep. Ayanna Pressley who keeps Sen. Eddie Markey up at night, not the challenging congressman from Salem.

That is because in a three-way race for the Senate, Pressley of Boston has a good chance of toppling Markey in the 2026 Democrat primary

That is when Markey, 79, of Malden and Chevy Chase, Maryland, will be seeking reelection to a third term in the Senate after serving in the House from 1976 to 2013.

That was when he won a special election to fill the term of Sen. John Kerry, who had been appointed Secretary of State. Markey was reelected in 2014 and again in 2020 when he defeated Joe Kennedy III.

Markey, who served in the Massachusetts Legislature before going to Washington, has been in public office longer than Moulton, 47, and Pressley, 51, have been a

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