By 2016, Maura Healey was already a rising political star. Once an underdog candidate, she quickly built a reputation as an activist attorney general willing to fight the opioid epidemic and hospital mergers. A magazine profile deemed her “unstoppable.” Insiders considered her a future gubernatorial hopeful.
Then, Donald Trump was elected, and politics changed forever — and with it, Healey’s profile.
The president’s nationalist rhetoric and chaotic — and at times unconstitutional — policies have for years provided Healey and other Democrats the highest-profile foil possible. In a solidly blue state eager for an unyielding Trump fighter, having an opponent who’s
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