Diehl, Healey hit campaign trail on last weekend before Election Day – WCVB Boston

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat, and her Republican opponent in the race for governor, Geoff Diehl, are hitting the campaign trail in the final weekend before Election Day.Healey made stops in Springfield and Worcester on Saturday, while Diehl attended the Haverhill Greek Festival.”My record is about delivering results for people in this state,” Healey said. “I’m proud of that and the work we’ve done as attorney general.””The message is very simple: I want to give you back some freedoms,” Diehl said. “Your health care freedoms; anybody who was fired because of the vaccine mandate, I can bring back to work (and) I want to bring back on Day One. Make sure parents have a choice for their kids’ education, so we’re going to open up school choice. There’s that and economic freedom.”Healey was elected Massachusetts attorney general as a first-time candidate in November 2014, becoming the first openly gay AG in the country. Now, she is aiming to become the first openly gay candidate elected governor in the state.”Different offices, different roles,” Healey said. “But I’ll tell you, I will bring the same energy, the same commitment and the same desire to build a team that is about working together to move things forward.”For much of this race, both candidates have focused on the men who have most recently held the nation’s highest office: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.”A return to Trumpism. It can be a return to taking away abortion rights and other freedoms. Or it can be the vision that Kim Driscoll and I are putting forward, which is about optimism,” Healey said.”The facto of the matter is Trump’s not on the ballot,” Diehl said. “Of course, Joe Biden and his economy is what I think people are more focused on. Plus, Joe Biden’s caused us high gas prices and Maura Healey caused us high heating and electric prices because she blocked two natural gas pipelines that feed manufacturing and electricity production in our state.”At the end of October, WCVB and UMass Amherst released a poll that showed Healey was 25 points ahead of Diehl. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8.