The Massachusetts Teachers Association endorsed Maura Healey in the race for governor this week.
The current attorney general is the only Democrat running for the post; the two Republican candidates are former state representative Geoff Diehl (R-Whitman) and Wrentham businessman Chris Doughty.
Rhode Island may elect a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives this year.
That's because former Cranston mayor Allan Fung, a Republican, leads against all of his potential challengers in the state's Second Congressional District, according to a Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll released earlier this week.