Sonia Chang-Diaz

The race for Massachusetts governor is heating up, and Democrat Maura Healey remains the frontrunner despite the state’s history of electing Republicans to the office.

State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz is hoping to increase awareness of her Democratic primary against Attorney General Maura Healey in the race for Massachusetts governor.

The candidates in the Massachusetts governor’s race were unknown more than half of registered voters surveyed in a recent poll.

It didn’t take long for the news to travel after Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito decided not to seek reelection. Outside the Massachusetts State House, the reaction was swift. “I am surprised. I am very surprised,” Emily Spicer Hankle said. “I think he has done a lot that is good for Massachusetts, and I think there...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito announced Wednesday morning that they won’t seek reelection in 2022. The long-awaited decision, which comes despite Baker’s consistently high approval rating, opens up the race for governor “After several months of discussion with our families, we have decided not to seek re-election in 2022,” they announced jointly via email. “This was…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is in no rush to announce his plans for a third term. UMass Dartmouth’s Shannon Jenkins is not surprised. “For him, it makes no sense to commit early,” Jenkins said. “His popularity ratings are quite high.” Jenkins says the two-term incumbent would enter the race as the clear front-runner. “So that’s why the big names...

Charlie Baker said Wednesday that he still isn’t quite ready to say whether he plans to seek re-election to a third term as Massachusetts governor. “That is something the lieutenant governor and I have been talking about with our families, and we’ll certainly make a decision about that soon,” he said following an event in Springfield to kick off...

Five days after announcing she will be a candidate for governor of Massachusetts, NBC10 Boston met up with Sonia Chang-Diaz in a park in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood for her first sit-down interview. Why is she running? “I’m tired of waiting for government to greet the challenges that working families in Massachusetts face with the same determination and the...

Sonia Chang Diaz discusses her candidacy for Massachusetts governor.

In today’s Daily Debrief, the first Latina elected to the state Senate announces she’s running for governor. A teen helps his siblings get out safely, after an apparent murder-suicide in Oxford. Plus the president’s plan to stop the surge of gun violence in America, and where you can buy real dinner with fake Monopoly money today.

Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz, a Boston Democrat and the first Latina elected to the Massachusetts Senate, announced that she will run for governor in 2022 on Twitter Wednesday morning, making her the third Democratic candidate to launch a bid for governor. “I am tired of waiting for government to live up to our hopes and our family’s needs, and that...

With Democrats and Republicans alike eagerly awaiting his decision on a third term, Gov. Charlie Baker will travel Tuesday to Nashville for meetings hosted by the Republican Governors Association, a group that in his past two campaigns has been hugely supportive. Baker has stressed for months that his focus is on guiding Massachusetts through the COVID-19 pandemic. But with the…

One former state senator is already running for governor on the Democratic side of the ticket, and now a current member of the Senate says she is “seriously considering” a campaign for the corner office next year when Gov. Charlie Baker’s second term expires. Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz, a Boston Democrat and the first Latinx woman to serve in the...