POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: Primary day dawns
View in browser BY LISA KASHINSKY DECISIONS, DECISIONS — A Donald Trump-backed conservative former state representative or a less-conservative businessman who’s largely self-funding his first political run. A prominent labor attorney who’s poured at least $9.3 million of her own money into her campaign or a former Boston city councilor with less legal experience but who could shatter a glass ceiling in November. A senator from western Massachusetts whose main pitch is connecting the two halves of the state by high-speed rail, a North Shore mayor who’s leaning into her executive experience, or a social-worker-turned-state-representative who’s won over progressive groups. Voters are already heading to the polls to make their picks in the Democratic primaries for lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state and auditor, and the Republican primaries for governor and lieutenant governor. And if you don’t know who I’m referr...