Healey, Markey Open Get-Out-the-Vote Push at Cambridge Rally

Massachusetts Democrats opened their closing campaign stretch with a rally in Cambridge's Central Square on October 25, where Governor Maura Healey, US Senator Ed Markey and Representative Katherine Clark tied rising costs in the state to President Trump, the Boston Globe reported.

About 175 people attended the event at Street Theory Collective, a nonprofit art studio, according to the Globe. It was the first of several planned before the November 3 election.

Healey, who is running for a second term against Republican nominee Michael Minogue, urged attendees to set aside disagreements. Markey, facing Republican John Deaton and two other challengers after defeating Representative Seth Moulton in the Democratic primary, said Massachusetts would act as a check on the Trump administration. Markey has said a win would give him his final term.

A Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll released the week before the rally found Healey and other statewide Democratic incumbents leading by at least 20 percentage points among likely voters, with nearly as many respondents blaming Trump for the state economy as blamed Healey.

With few competitive congressional races in Massachusetts, Clark and Representative Ayanna Pressley have campaigned and donated in swing states. Clark asked the crowd to make calls for candidates elsewhere. The Cook Political Report rates seven US Senate seats, six of them held by Republicans, as toss-ups.

This story was first reported by The Boston Globe.