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March 4, 2020

Record Turnout in the MA Primary
Trump Puts Bay Staters at Risk, and Charlie Baker Stays Silent

Record Turnout in the MA Primary

Massachusetts Democrats know how much is at stake in this election, and they’re ready to take back the White House in November. We turned out in record numbers to support Democrats in yesterday’s Presidential primary, showing that voters are energized and mobilizing to defeat Donald Trump.
* Across the Commonwealth, voters turned out in record numbers to support Democrats in the Presidential primary.
* With over 1.6 million votes cast in total, over 1.3 million people voted for Democrats yesterday, while only 260,000 turned out to support either Republican candidate.
+ Democratic turnout has already surpassed that of 2008, another historic election year.
* For the first time, Massachusetts allowed people to vote early in a Presidential primary.
+ Over 109,000 Massachusetts Democrats cast their votes in the week before Super Tuesday.
+ In addition to those who took advantage of the early vote opportunity, 70,000 Bay Staters sent in absentee ballots.
* When turnout is high, Democrats win, and it’s clear from yesterday’s numbers that voters are determined to vote Trump out this November.
* As our Party Chair Gus Bickford said, yesterday marked the beginning of the reckoning for Donald Trump.

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Trump Puts Bay Staters at Risk, and Charlie Baker Stays Silent
Trump has spent the past three years putting children in cages, attacking civil rights, siding with the NRA, and denying climate change--now he’s turning the coronavirus threat into his personal political tool. Still, Charlie Baker is happy to stay uninvolved and still won’t say who he is voting for.
* The Trump administration has put us all at risk with their late, haphazard, and politicized response to this global health crisis.
+ From censuring experts in his own administration, to calling criticisms of his botched response a “hoax,” Trump is downplaying the threat posed by the coronavirus to protect his reelection campaign.
+ We're now feeling the effects after years of cuts to critical health programs. Two years ago, Trump ousted the entire pandemic response team and did not replace it.
* It doesn’t end with the coronavirus. On Monday we found out that a climate-denier promoted in Trump’s Department of the Interior has been spreading misinformation in official reports.
+ Massachusetts is already feeling the effects of climate change, just ask anyone down the Cape or on the South Shore. This misinformation could justify policies that have detrimental effects to our climate and our future, and Charlie Baker is content to sit on the sidelines.
* No matter what steps we take to prepare for things like the coronavirus or a climate disaster, we need a competent, committed, and compassionate federal government that can deliver a well-coordinated response.
* Charlie Baker might not have voted for Donald Trump in yesterday’s primary, but when he stays silent on the issues that matter, he enables Trump’s agenda.

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