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US SENATE: US Sen. Ed Markey secured a decisive victory in the Democratic primary against US Rep. Seth Moulton. It marked the second consecutive race in which Markey turned back a primary challenge from a younger member of the state’s congressional delegation. Jennifer Smith and Jordan Wolman report. |
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US CONGRESS: In his second bid for a congressional seat, former Biden White House aide Dan Koh won the Democratic nomination to succeed US Rep. Seth Moulton. In a year when many Democrats sought to distance themselves from the Biden presidency, Koh leaned in, Jennifer Smith writes. |
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STATE SENATE: Despite Massachusetts’s notoriously uncompetitive elections, a progressive upstart sparked a nail-biter race for the Suffolk and Middlesex District Senate seat. Incumbent William Brownsberger is up 61 votes over first-time candidate, Daniel Lander, who was endorsed by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, according to unofficial results. Meanwhile, First Suffolk District State Sen. Nick Collins secured 54 percent of the vote to defeat another Wu-backed candidate, Latoya Gayle. Jennifer Smith reports. |
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GOP GOV: Mike Minogue, a wealthy former medical device company CEO who poured more than $15 million into his campaign, closed out a Republican gubernatorial primary race that had begun to feel more like a formality, decisively defeating Brian Shortsleeve, who served in top posts under Gov. Charlie Baker. Jordan Wolman has the details. |
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Time and tide, Chaucer told us, wait for no man. Except, it seems, Ed Markey. |
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Against the backdrop of a national electorate increasingly fed up with the old ways of Washington and the aging politicians who dominate its halls of power, Massachusetts voters rejected a challenger campaigning on the theme of generational change and delivered a resounding victory to an 80-year-old incumbent who arrived on Capitol Hill when Gerald Ford was in the White House. |
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Markey, a five-decade fixture in Congress – with the long-winded, stentorian speaking style to prove it – easily defeated US Rep. Seth Moulton in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, piling up a nearly 2-to-1 margin over the 47-year-old one-time Marine platoon leader. |
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Markey, who came late to statewide office, winning the Senate seat in 2013 after serving more than 35 years in the House, has fashioned himself into the Bernie Sanders of Massachusetts politics – an avuncular, gray-haired champion of impatient, young progressives. |
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Markey played the card brilliantly six years ago against another young Democratic congressman, Joe Kennedy III, becoming the first person to beat a Kennedy in a Massachusetts election. |
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Fast forward to this year’s race and Markey – who turned 80 during the primary campaign against Moulton – managed to convince voters again to leave aside any concerns about his age. |
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In what became practically his campaign mantra, Markey repeated the line to all who raised the issue: “It’s not your age, it’s the age of your ideas that are important.” |
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Markey has not been in complete denial over the inevitable facts of life. He said during the race that, if reelected, this would be his last six-year term. |
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In other words, while he has insisted that he is not too old to do the job, he seemed to tacitly admit that he almost is. |
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Elections Around the Commonwealth |
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SUFFOLK DA: Incumbent Kevin Hayden, a one-time appointee of a Republican governor who has a reputation as a moderate Democrat, defeated challengers Rachael Rollins, a progressive but controversial firebrand, and Linda Champion, who was backed by Boston’s largest police union. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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MIDDLESEX DA: Incumbent Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan declared victory after primary challenger David Solet conceded just before 11 p.m. Tuesday night. With no Republican on the November 3 ballot, Ryan is expected to continue in a role she has had for 13 years. (MetroWest Daily News) |
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NORFOLK DA: Djuna Perkins claimed victory Wednesday in the seven-person Democratic primary to succeed Michael Morrissey as the district attorney for Norfolk County. Perkins will face Joseph M. Pagliarulo, a former state prosecutor from Millis who is running as a self-funded independent with $3,000 he donated to his campaign. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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CAMBRIDGE STATE REP: Incumbent state Representative Marjorie Decker held a 505-vote lead over progressive labor organizer Evan MacKay, according to an unofficial vote count released by the Cambridge Election Commission. (The Harvard Crimson) |
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SOMERVILLE STATE SENATE: Erika Uyterhoeven, a Somerville state representative and self-described democratic socialist who has spent five years arguing that the Legislature hides its own votes, won the Democratic nomination in the Second Middlesex District. (Winchester News) |
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