It’s 9:40 a.m. on the day before the Massachusetts primaries and I’ve already seen every Democrat running for statewide office at the @GBLCBoston Labor Day breakfast (save for @maura_healey, who’s coming later.) And yes, that’s @TamiGouveiaMA eating a waffle #mapoli
Presumptive Democratic governor nominee @maura_healey makes her pitch at @GBLCBoston: “As governor, I’m always going to champion those on the front lines.” #mapoli
A joke is made about all of @ShannonForAG’s TV ads — “you may have seen her in her commercials” — ahead of her @GBLCBoston speech. She’s now given her campaign $9.3M to fuel more than $5.5M in ads, and has run six statewide and one in western Mass #mapolipoliti.co/3ARzbWk
A sustained standing ovation for @VP Kamala Harris to begin her speech at @GBLCBoston#mapoli
.@VP Kamala Harris knows her @GBLCBoston audience — she quickly heaps praise on former Boston mayor and former union head @SecMartyWalsh (who isn’t here today) and passes along his greetings to his many Boston friends and frenemies in this crowd #bospoli
.@VP Kamala Harris says she and @POTUS Joe Biden are “determined to lead the most pro-union administration in American history.” That earns Harris her second standing ovation from the @GBLCBoston breakfast crowd #mapoli
.@VP Kamala Harris at @GBLCBoston Labor Day breakfast calls out "extremist so-called leaders" across the country who are "trying to turn back time" on workers' rights, abortion rights and more. She says the Biden administration is "fighting back" and lists how #mapoli
NOW: @VP Kamala Harris holds a roundtable on how Biden admin can best support working ppl w/@SenMarkey, @RepPressley@maura_healey. Harris notes she & Healey overlapped as AGs & praises presumptive Dem nominee for gov as a “leader nationally” on combating wage theft etc #mapoli
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Polls are CLOSED in Massachusetts (except in Barnstable, where voting will continue until midnight due to a vault issue this morning). Stay with me and @politico for all your #mapoli primary results tonight!
I’m starting my night at AG @maura_healey’s campaign party before heading elsewhere. Healey is en route to officially clinching the Democratic nomination for governor, after her last primary opponent dropped out in June. Few here yet, but the Bachelorette is playing #mapoli
AG debate, hosted by Boston @Ward4Dems@bostonward5dems, getting underway. @AndreaForAG@ShannonForAG@qpalfrey all here, a few hours after Campbell picked up some new endorsements in Revere while Palfrey/Liss-Riordan knocked her for not signing "People's Pledge" w/ them #mapoli
What sets the candidates for AG apart? They all say experience.
AG candidates asked what's the biggest single challenge facing Massachusetts?
— @AndreaForAG: Mental health and housing
— @ShannonForAG: "The high cost of everything."
— @qpalfrey: Structural racism and economic and wealth inequality #mapoli
At the MassGOP convention in Springfield, a breakfast battle: @DiehlForMA had a breakfast inside and @chrisforma’s eldest son is handing out breakfast sandwiches outside the parking garage #mapoli
On the way into the convention hall, @DiehlForMA@LeahColeAllen supporters are handing out swag bags that include water, a bumper sticker, lit and an American flag #mapoli
Chair Jim Lyons is staunchly antiabortion in MA, where abortion is codified. @massgop handing out “Protect the Unborn” pins at convention & Lyons says onstage “We don't get our rights from Beacon Hill. We don't get our rights from Washington. We get our rights from God.” #mapoli
Assistant House Majority Leader @staterepmike, who co-leads redistricting, says mapmakers used “sound redistricting principles that were transparent & known to all from the very beginning of this process.” This comes amid big backlash to Fall River/New Bedford split #mapoli
@staterepmike BREAKING: The House has approved the congressional redistricting map (that splits Fall River and New Bedford) to be engrossed by a 151-8 vote. Now on to the Senate, where there's expected to be more friction #mapoli