Healey, the state's first woman and openly gay candidate elected to the office, defeated Trump endorsed Republican Geoff Diehl.
Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey has been elected governor of Massachusetts, making history as the nation's first openly lesbian governor.
"Let's put money back in people's pockets by cutting the costs of housing, energy and health care," she said last June. The Republican all-female ticket of Sarah Huckabee Sanders for governor and Leslie Rutledge for lieutenant governor won in Arkansas. In Ohio, the ticket of Democrat Nan Whaley and running mate Cheryl Stephens lost to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.
Healey — elected eight years ago as the nation's first openly gay attorney general — snapped what's become known in Massachusetts as the"curse of the attorney general." Since 1958, six former Massachusetts attorneys general have sought the governor's office. All failed. Healey also targeted OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family over allegations they deceived patients and doctors about the risks of opioids.
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