Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley begins to rediscover her district this week with a re-election tour, but questions remain about whether she really represents her constituents’ top needs.

After spending her early career with the ultra-progressive “Squad” talking about Gaza, student loan debt, abortion access, and building a far-left national profile, Pressley actually has to pretend she cares about everyone in her Boston area district.

Looking at demographics from the U.S. Census, Pressley represents some blue-collar communities where a majority of residents didn’t go to college and would likely be impacted by economic pressures other than student loans, such as food prices and wages under Bidenomics.

But she talks constantly about student loans like it is top of everybody’s minds – which obviously it is not. But people in Revere, Everett, Chelsea and some neighborhoods in Boston have to pay for the student loans of those in Cambridge and Somerville.

As far as her foreign policy experience goes, it seems to be limited to tweeting out for a Gaza cease-fire every 5 minutes.

The Squad led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has actually lost influence in Congress over the last few years, with some of the members fighting for their political lives and the Democratic Party is struggling to hold on to the White House.

Pressley says in her re-election campaign kickoff that she wants to grow Democrats’ power in Washington, which is helping her constituents how?

What she describes as accomplishments, like putting out student loan debt tweets, have actually been unsuccessful attempts at changing policy.

The Boston congresswoman put out a campaign video on Wednesday surrounded by admiring supporters in what she called a “love letter” to her district.

She first announced she was running for re-election, like it was a big surprise, in a slobbering Boston Globe story which claimed without evidence she has national clout and included important tidbits like she’s celebrating her 50th birthday. Pressley in fact rarely gives interviews to the media other than friendly press like public radio. Press going to her events have to R.S.V.P. with her office.

She’s followed the Elizabeth Warren playbook – severely limiting her public exposure except for only the friendliest groups and media.

In the next few months, we may see her venture out more until she disappears once again into the woke vacuum. She’s already secured fawning endorsements from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Gov. Maura Healey, but Wu and Healey have shown political weakness, so their backing may not help her.

She has no election opponent to worry about now — which says more about the lame-state Republican Party than anything else.

Pressley’s re-election campaign is more about lining herself up to run for statewide office like the U.S. Senate after Warren decides to limp off the stage. Pressley defeated incumbent Congressman Michael Capuano in 2018 and is certainly capable of winning higher office.

But if she’s successful she needs to reach out to constituents she’s generally ignored.