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
BREAKING: @maura_healey is officially your Democratic nominee for governor in Massachusetts, with 1 percent of the vote in 38 minutes after the polls closed in a race where she was unopposed #mapoli
Democratic gov nominee @maura_healey starts her general election campaign by talking about her working partnerships w/ everyone up thru GOP Gov. @CharlieBakerMA: "I have the experience and I have the results." #mapoli
Democratic gov nominee @maura_healey doesn't know which Republican she'll face yet. But she lays out her general-election argument by saying either Diehl or Doughty will "put politics over progress...oppose abortion rights" and "bring Trumpism to Massachusetts." #mapoli
INBOX: Mass Dem gov nominee @maura_healey will campaign with her TBD lt gov running mate in Worcester tomorrow afternoon #mapoli
BREAKING: AP has called the GOP primary for governor for Trump-endorsed conservative former state Rep. @DiehlForMA over political newcomer and less conservative @chrisforma. This sets up a Diehl vs. @maura_healey match for governor in November #mapoli
NEW: It's Trump-backed @DiehlForMA vs. Dem @maura_healey for Massachusetts governor. Down the ballot, @AndreaForAG could become the first Black woman elected attorney general and SoS @BillGalvin4MA survived another primary challenge.
NOW: Dem nominee for AG @AndreaForAG enters her primary night party to raucous cheers, hugs and applause #mapoli#bospoli
A visibly emotional @AndreaForAG wipes tears from her eyes before breaking into a grin as she addresses a jubilant crowd of supporters after winning the Democratic nomination for AG. “For all of those who have felt unseen, this victory is for you.” #mapoli#bospoli
Meanwhile. @LizForBoston claims victory in the five-way Dem primary for Second Suffolk state Senate #mapoli#bospoli
“We have turned our mvmt into a moment. A historic moment. It is not lost on me that this is the first time a Black woman has ever been elected as a nominee not only for AG in Mass but for any statewide office,” @AndreaForAG says.
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
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