Republican gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl was endorsed by former President Trump.
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Former state consultant and Donald Trump-backed candidate Geoff Diehl secured the GOP nomination for governor of Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Diehl defeated the extra average businessman Chris Doughty and can face off this November towards Democratic Legal professional Normal Maura Healey, who could be the primary girl and first brazenly homosexual particular person elected to the workplace.
Massachusetts’ present governor, Republican Charlie Baker, determined to not run for a 3rd time period.
Massachusetts is the most recent Democratic stronghold by which Republicans have nominated the Trump-backed candidate following victories by Leora Levy in Connecticut and Dan Cox in Maryland.
Diehl could have a tricky time defeating Healey, who has emerged because the heavy favourite within the race in probably the most liberal states within the nation the place lower than 10% of registered voters are Republican in comparison with 31% Democrat.
Whereas Massachusetts has a historical past of electing fiscally conservative, social average Republicans as governor — together with Mitt Romney and Baker — voters might not heat as much as a Trump loyalist.
Diehl unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2018, when he acquired simply 36% of the vote regardless of successful a three-way GOP major.
Throughout a victory get together Tuesday earlier than the GOP race was known as, Healey, whose solely opponent dropped out of the race, claimed that no matter who she would run towards, “We all know he’ll be out of contact with the values we stand for.”
“They’ll deliver Trumpism to Massachusetts,” she added about each candidates.
Diehl’s ties to Trump return to 2016, when he served as co-chair for the ex-president’s marketing campaign in Massachusetts.
He has embraced Trump’s claims that he had gained the 2020 election. Final 12 months he mentioned he didn’t assume it was a “stolen election” however later mentioned the election was rigged regardless of any proof.
Healey has campaigned on increasing job coaching packages, making little one care extra reasonably priced and modernizing the state’s colleges. She promised to guard “entry to secure and authorized abortion in Massachusetts” following the Supreme Courtroom’s choice to overturn Roe v. Wade.
She's going to look to interrupt Massachusetts’ lengthy historical past of former legal professional generals dropping their bids for governor. Since 1958, six AGs have ran for workplace and every misplaced.
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