Almost as shortly because the gubernatorial race was known as for Maura Healey, Rick Green, the emcee for Geoff Diehl’s election night time get together, went on stage to query the outcomes.
“As we sit here, there are lines across the commonwealth, of voters still waiting to cast their vote in towns and small cities for Geoff Diehl and Leah Cole,” Green mentioned shortly after 8 p.m.
“What you see on your TVs is nothing more than a projection of the mainstream media and what they believe will happen.”
The race was known as minutes after polls closed, with percentages listed at zero for each the Democrat lawyer normal and Republican former state consultant.
“We have reason to believe that this may go down as a worse call than Arizona in 2020,” Green mentioned, telling attendees within the Wharf Room of the Boston Harbor Hotel to remain put. “We believe this is faulty information and we will have more time.”
An hour later, Diehl marketing campaign supervisor Amanda Orlando doubled down on that evaluation, saying that with lower than 5% of the vote counted — and Healey main by 15 factors — it was “irresponsible” and “extremely premature” for the Associated Press to name the race.
“In the last 45 minutes, we’ve seen red dots pop up on the electoral map as real results are coming in,” Orlando mentioned. “I’ll also remind folks that back in 2016, the Associated Press called the presidential election for Hillary Clinton and I think we all know how that one turned out.”
The message matched the optimistic tone that was struck by Orlando and MassGOP Chairman Jim Lyons lower than an hour earlier than outcomes began to come back in, regardless of polls in current weeks that confirmed Diehl was trailing Healey by double digits.
“I think tonight’s about us winning,” Lyons instructed reporters. “We’ve seen the polls. We understand the polls. You guys have all seen the polls, but we think Geoff’s run a great campaign and we think that we’re gonna win.”
Lyons mentioned Republicans felt low voter turnout — with fewer Democrats and extra Independent voters anticipated — was going to provide Diehl and different get together candidates a very good likelihood to win on Tuesday night time.
While Lyons dismissed the notion that not having the endorsement of in style outgoing Republican Gov. Charlie Baker damage Diehl’s probabilities, Orlando mentioned the marketing campaign was blissful to have the assist of former President Donald Trump.
“We certainly don’t regret it,” Orlando mentioned. “First of all, he supported Donald Trump back in 2016, as did a million people in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that year, right. So we’re in good company as far as where the voters are.”
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