In 2014, Charlie Baker ran to be governor of Massachusetts as a Republican.
In that same election cycle, he backed a Democrat for governor in the neighboring state with a history of electing Republican governors in a race decided by fewer than 5 percentage points.
Charlie Baker has no problem giving money to help elect Democrats.
The incumbent Republican governor of Massachusetts has made many political donations over the years. While the majority of those campaign donations look to be to Republican candidates, not all of them went to members of his party. Baker has donated nearly $7,000 to Democratic candidates in the Commonwealth in the past 20 years, according to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance.
