Can see a wide path for Jake Auchincloss in #MA04, but this isn't a clear story of anybody spoiling anybody: Grossman was going for the same voters as him (from same base), Leckey and Linos going for the same voters as Mermell.
That said it reminds me a bit of those CA races last cycle where a couple candidates would have no strategy for victory but keep running anyway.
This Intercept piece touting Ihssane Leckey - who's heading for fifth place in #MA04 - used an internal Leckey poll to suggest that Mermell was stalled out. A better metric might have been $. Leckey mostly had to self-fund, as she raised a bit over $250k from donors.
For contrast, Cori Bush raised >$400,000 to beat Lacy Clay. Lecky just didn't put the kind of campaign together that could win a crowded primary, hampered (as article notes) by jumping in to challenge Kennedy, which kept consultants away.
The Needham count is off, but that's the only town where Mermell looks like she'd add to her margin.
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