It’s Election Day in Massachusetts, and the race for governor is in its final stretch. Gov. Maura Healey and challenger Mike Minogue made their closing pitches to voters at campaign stops ahead of Election Day.
Massachusetts is preparing for Election Day, with a primary focus on the gubernatorial race between incumbent Governor Maura Healey and Republican challenger Mike Minogue. While over a million mail-in ballots have been cast, voters will head to the polls tomorrow to decide the state's leadership and future policy directions.
Election Day is just hours away.
More than 1 million voters have
already mailed in their ballots
Nearly 350,000 people went
in person for early voting tomorrow.
The polling centers across the
state will open at 7 AM.
The biggest race voters will
decide is the race for governor.
Incumbent Governor Maura Healey
looking to secure a second term.
She's facing Republican Mike Minogue.
Both candidates making their final
pitches to voters tonight before
polls open in the morning.
Boston 25's Daniel Coates is live for us.
at the State House with their final push.
And Daniel, it all comes down to tomorrow.
Yeah, and so much on the line tomorrow.
It's hard to believe that we're only one sweep away
in a handful of hours until those polls open.
I had the chance today to speak with some of the voters.
Even though one million votes are already in,
a lot of Bay Staters are looking forward
to just hitting the polls, you know, the old-fashioned way.
Meanwhile, those candidates were zipping around the state,
like you said, making their final push.
Republican candidate Mike Minogue rallied supporters in Revere.
It was one of his stops on the eve of a crucial election.
Massachusetts needs to be the best place to live,
work, and raise a family for everyone.
Meanwhile, in downtown Boston, Governor Maura Healey popped
into several businesses, promising she'll protect them
and their families if given two more years.
We've got a lower housing cost.
We've got 100,000 homes in the pipeline under my administration.
We've got more work to do, increasing access to primary care,
maternal health care and mental health care.
Social media regulation
and AI are also priorities she's vowed to pursue.
We've made a lot of changes in the last four years.
Free community college, we cut taxes,
we turned around a broken transit system in Massachusetts and at the T.
And there's a lot more that we have left to do.
But the former businessman says her time is up.
Minogue blamed Healey Monday for the state's high cost of electricity,
health care, housing, and more.
What this election is about is what Maura Healey said.
That Massachusetts is a great place to live if you can afford it.
And most people can't afford it.
I will be a new kind of governor.
The rivals have clashed in two fiery debates
over two months of intense campaigning.
Healey's tied him and his policies to President Donald Trump,
while Minogue assured the public
he doesn't abide by party lines.
The top of mind for me
is dealing with the real struggle that so many people
are having with affordability these days.
This is the tipping point election.
There's always sort of a sense of civic pride
in Boston going to your polling station.
Bostonians have their voting plans set
and are ready to hit the ground running early Tuesday.
It's an intense time.
We'll survive. I think that would be my advice. Just relax.
Yeah, good reminder there from Brian.
If you haven't already done so,
make sure that you know your nearest polling location.
Those locations open up at 7 in the morning tomorrow,
and they'll close at 8.
But a whole lot on the line tomorrow,
and a lot of anticipation you can feel in downtown Boston tonight.
On scene outside the Statehouse.
I'm Daniel Koch for your local station, Boston 25 News.
Daniel, thank you.
