MICHIGAN Three-Handed MASSACHUSETTS Millionaire Marine
Mounts Challenge • With state spending on the rise, higher taxes, and Massachusetts voters increasingly concerned about illegal aliens in their state, it was no surprise that Republicans would make a serious effort to depose Democrat Gov. Maura Healey. Republican eyes are
increasingly on Brian Shortsleeve — Harvard graduate, former U.S. Marine, founder of several technology companies, and former chief administrator of the MBTA’s (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) Fiscal and Management Control Board. Shortsleeve caught attention earlier this year when he emerged as the top fundraiser (more than $1 million) in the GOP pack. For all its liberal leanings, independents make up the Bay State’s largest voting bloc and has often sent Republicans to the statehouse, although the legislature remains reliably in Democrat hands.
Rummy • This is one of the oddest races for governor anywhere because the independent hopeful is serious, substantive, and might just win. Detroit’s three-term Mayor Mike Duggan
stunned the Wolverine State’s political elites by running as an independent. He’s been endorsed by William Clay Ford Jr., executive chair of the Ford Motor Co. A reformer who saved his city from penury, Duggan runs without the baggage of termed-out Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — never forgiven by many for strict COVID-19 restrictions that devastated the state’s small business community. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist,
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Whitmer’s fellow liberal Democrats, are the leading contenders for their party’s nods. Conservative Republicans, notably Rep. John James (who seeks to become Michigan’s first Black governor) and former state Attorney General Mike Cox, will fight it out for the GOP nomination.
NEW YORK Hochul’s Last Hurrah HEALEY
• Since “accidental governor” Kathy Hochul’s narrow reelection in ’22, New York Republicans have felt certain the Democrat was ripe for defeat in ’26. The largely unknown Hochul, a former lieutenant governor, got the keys to the statehouse after her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, quit amid sexual harassment claims in 2021. This year Hochul’s No. 2, Lt. Gov. Anthony Delgado, has already announced he is challenging her for the Democrat nomination. New York remains a stubbornly blue state. The
to deport illegal aliens. He also stood fast in opposing President Donald Trump’s deployment of troops
to bring down Chicago’s spiraling crime rate. The right will hit hard at Pritzker next year, with leading candidates including former state Sen. Darren Bailey, who was the 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee, and Ted Dabrowski, a former vice president at Illinois Policy Institute. Whoever challenges
Pritzker is sure to have assistance from Trump. The president makes no secret of his dislike of the 300-pound governor, of whom he once said: “All he ever did was eat.”
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latest Siena College poll shows Hochul leading her likely GOP opponent, Rep. Elise Stefanik, 52%-27% statewide.
Buckeye Brawl
• Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has just about wrapped up the GOP nod to succeed termed-out Gov. Mike DeWine. Ramaswamy, who made a quicksilver
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bid for president last year before he quickly endorsed Donald Trump, is running on an across-the-board conservative agenda on cultural and economic issues. But some within the party are not
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enamored with the relative newcomer, who has next to no profile within the state, and a “Gov. Ramaswamy” is by no means a foregone conclusion. Centrist Democrat and former Rep. Tim Ryan, who
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narrowly lost a Senate race to JD Vance in 2022, is now being encouraged by state and national Democrats to seek the governorship on a ticket with former Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost a bid for reelection last year and is now attempting to win the special election for Vance’s old seat. A recent Emerson College poll showed Ramaswamy leading Ryan 49%-41%.
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