"Democrat Maura Healey and Republican Geoff Diehl tangled in their first televised debate on Wednesday, parrying over Donald Trump, abortion rights, and who voters should trust most as governor to help lower costs and taxes across the state.Healey and Diehl traded barbs throughout the hour-long forum, which served as a contrast in visions of the issues most pressing for voters. The attorney general repeatedly painted Diehl as wildly out of step with the Massachusetts electorate, while Diehl cast the front-runner as a threat to the pocketbooks of residents.Healey, a South End Democrat, fashioned herself as intensely focused on addressing affordability, promising she is “going to cut taxes” and throwing support behind a tax relief package that Governor Charlie Baker, the Republican incumbent, had pushed since January."
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"DEMOCRAT MAURA Healey and Republican Geoff Diehl held their first gubernatorial debate Wednesday night, with both candidates linking the other to the policies and beliefs of their party’s leader.Healey, the state’s attorney general and the clear frontrunner in the race according to polls, repeatedly hammered Diehl for his close ties to former president Donald Trump, who is not well liked in Massachusetts.“Let’s be clear about who we are,” Healey said. “My opponent has said recently that he backs Donald Trump 100 percent of the time. He has said he wants Donald Trump to be president in 2024. He chaired his presidential campaign. He continues to play from the Trump playbook and wants to bring Trumpism to Massachusetts. I will continue to talk about this Geoff because those are values, those are principles, those are ways that we have rejected time and time again."
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| Republican Geoff Diehl and Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey, the candidates for governor, met for a debate on Wednesday night. STEVEN SENNE/ASSOCIATED PRESS |
