POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: Diehl's shifting media strategy
View in browser BY LISA KASHINSKY MAINSTREAM APPEAL — Geoff Diehl rejected offers for televised debates and spurned some interview requests from major news outlets during his primary campaign, calculating that his path to the Republican nomination for governor ran through conservative media. But he’s making the rounds to mainstream outlets now that he’s facing Democrat Maura Healey, the state attorney general, in a general election in which he’ll need to appeal to a much broader audience of independents and potentially some Democrats to win. Diehl's post-primary interviews on GBH and WCVB show how he's trying to reconcile his conservative ideals and endorsement from former President Donald Trump, which proved popular with Republican primary voters, with the views of general-election voters who twice rejected Trump by at least 27 points and residents who overwhelmingly say abortion should be legal ...