{"id":1632652,"date":"2022-09-04T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632652"},"modified":"2022-09-04T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:04:18","slug":"massachusetts-gop-divided-over-choice-of-gubernatorial-nominee-ahead-of-tuesdays-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-gop-divided-over-choice-of-gubernatorial-nominee-ahead-of-tuesdays-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts GOP Divided Over Choice of Gubernatorial Nominee Ahead of Tuesday\u2019s Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmassachusetts-gop-divided-over-choice-of-gubernatorial-nominee-ahead-of-tuesdays-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632652&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>With the state\u2019s midterm primary election approaching on Sept. 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a>\u00a0Republicans are divided over their choice of who to nominate for gubernatorial races.<\/p>\n<p>Primary voters will on Tuesday be choosing\u00a0between former state representative Geoff Diehl, a conservative pro-life Republican who proudly touts the endorsement of Donald Trump, and successful businessman Chris Doughty, a pro-choice Republican and self-prescribed pragmatist, who has made it clear that he does not align with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In November, one of them will face ultra-liberal Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who is not facing a primary challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with The Epoch Times, Diehl and Doughty said they believe Healey\u2019s overly-woke principles may be self-defeating enough to put another Republican in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-governor\">governor<\/a>\u2019s seat in the otherwise blue state of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe believes in her own personal ideology and that it is way more important than serving a balanced agenda that serves the entire state and its population,\u201d Diehl told The Epoch Times about Healey, who has decried pregnancy support centers as dangerous and has called for more drag queen events to be held in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Doughty expressed a similar sentiment, saying that Healey would turn Massachusetts into a statewide San Francisco with her vow to be the most progressive governor in America.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/06\/13\/2018-06-12T151212Z_1_LYNXMPEE5B1AQ_RTROPTP_4_USA-OPIOIDS-LITIGATION.jpg\"><\/a> Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announces the state will join a lawsuit challenging then President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order travel ban in Boston, Mass., on Jan. 31, 2017. (Brian Snyder\/Reuters) <\/p>\n<p>But outside of a unanimous target on Healey\u2019s campaign, Diehl, 53, and Doughty, 59, have a starkly different support base within the party.<\/p>\n<p>Doughty, who has thrown more than $2 million of his own money behind his campaign, won an endorsement from The Boston Globe, which promoted editorially that \u201creasonable\u201d Republicans should vote for him if they want to save the party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the state\u2019s midterm primary election approaching on Sept. 6, Massachusetts\u00a0Republicans are divided over their choice of who to nominate for gubernatorial races. Primary voters will on Tuesday be choosing\u00a0between former state representative Geoff Diehl, a conservative pro-life Republican who proudly touts the endorsement of Donald Trump, and successful businessman Chris Doughty, a pro-choice Republican [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}