Rumors have swirled for months about who might challenge Michelle Wu in 2025, as she’s widely expected to run for reelection. Josh Kraft acknowledged in November he had been approached about running for mayor.
Geoff Diehl
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Healey, Diehl go at it in final debate
WITH LESS THAN three weeks until the election, Maura Healey and Geoff Diehl traded a few jabs but otherwise engaged in fairly low-key debate in their race for governor. Diehl, a conservative Republican former state representative who is trailing badly in the polls, tried to tie Healey, the state’s two-term Democratic attorney general, to high […]
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The non-race for Massachusetts governor
MASSACHUSETTS, A PLACE long associated with spirited political contests, is sleepwalking its way through the state’s first open race for governor in eight years. “It’s August and we pretty much know who’s going to be governor. I feel bad even saying it,” said Evan Horowitz of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University. […]
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For GOP candidates, no news apparently good newsÂ
IT SEEMS LIKE an odd strategy for a party that claims only 9 percent of the state’s registered voters and is a decided underdog in polling match-ups looking ahead to the November election. A week after the two Republican candidates for governor, Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty, shunned a WBUR forum on climate change, their […]
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Here’s the Diehl with wacky Mass. politicsÂ
IT’S OFTEN HARD for outsiders to make sense of Massachusetts, where Democrats reign supreme but Republicans have dominated the governor’s office for more than three decades. Today’s development does little to help clear things up. The thumbnail version: A former Republican president who is deeply unpopular in the state has endorsed a former Republican state […]
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On transgender rights, Massachusetts and Trump administration moving in opposite directions
“Transgender could be defined out of existence by Trump administration” read the headline on the New York Times story from Monday, reporting on a leaked memo that showed the Department of Health and Human Services was seeking to define gender on a “biological basis”. On Wednesday, the Justice Department argued to the Supreme Court that […]
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The duel over Diehl
THE BIT MOMENT in this week’s gubernatorial debate between Governor Charlie Baker and his Democratic opponent Jay Gonzalez was not about being governor at all. It came down to a duel over the Republican candidate for Senate, Geoff Diehl. Diehl was the Massachusetts co-chair for Trump’s presidential campaign, and has closely aligned himself with the […]
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Diehl reverts to form
When Geoff Diehl worked his way to a second-ballot endorsement for US Senate by the state Republican Party at its convention last month, some wondered where the fire-breathing Trump supporter went. The Whitman state rep who co-chaired Trump’s Massachusetts campaign never mentioned the man in the White House in his speech to delegates. It felt, […]