Geoff Diehl

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Diehl on the campaign trail in 2018

In April 2017, Diehl announced his intent to challenge Elizabeth Warren for her U.S. Senate seat. [8] [9] In the Republican primary election held on September 4, 2018, Diehl finished first in a field of three candidates. [10] The incumbent, Elizabeth Warren, defeated Diehl by 24 percentage points. [11] [12]

2022 gubernatorial campaign

On July 4, 2021, Geoff Diehl announced he was running for governor of Massachusetts. In October 2021, Donald Trump endorsed Geoff Diehl for governor. [13] He was Massachusetts state co-chair of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and a Trump delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention. [14] Diehl also supported Jim Lyons, the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, who in January 2021 was reelected to the party chairmanship after defeating a challenge from Shawn Dooley. [15]

As a candidate, Diehl criticized federal and state mandates [16] put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic and continuously supported workers and first responders being fired for not taking the vaccine. He is a proponent of parents who want to decide for their children whether or not they would like a vaccine. [17]

At the state party convention on May 21, Diehl was officially endorsed by the Massachusetts Republican Party with 71% of the delegates' votes. [18] He won the Republican nomination on September 6. On November 8, Attorney General of Massachusetts and Democratic nominee Maura Healey handily defeated Diehl in the general election. [19]

2024 State Senate campaign

On December 11, 2023 Diehl filed campaign finance paper, changing his accounts' office sought to the Second Plymouth and Norfolk, currently held by Senator Michael Brady (politician). Diehl had previously matched up against Brady in a 2015 special election for the same seat.

Electoral history

United States Senate election in Massachusetts general election results by county, 2018:
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United States Senate election in Massachusetts general election results by county, 2018:
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Geoff Diehl
Massachusetts State Rep. Geoff Diehl (cropped).jpg
Member of the MassachusettsHouseofRepresentatives
from the 7th Plymouth district
In office
January 5, 2011 January 2, 2019
Massachusetts Gubernatorial Election, 2022
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Maura Healey 1,584,403 63.74
Republican Geoff Diehl859,34334.57
LibertarianKevin Reed39,2441.58
Write-In Others2,8060.11
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2018 [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Elizabeth Warren (incumbent) 1,633,371 60.34
Republican Geoff Diehl979,21036.17
Independent Shiva Ayyadurai 91,7103.39
Write-In Others2,7990.10
2016 Election for Massachusetts' 7th Plymouth House District
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Geoff Diehl (Incumbent) 17,088 99.20
Write-In Others1440.80
2015 Special Election for Massachusetts' 2nd Bristol and Plymouth State Senate District [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Michael Brady 14,397 56.9
Republican Geoff Diehl10,24540.5
Independent Anna Raduc6492.56
Write-In Others100.04
2014 Election for Massachusetts' 7th Plymouth House District
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Geoff Diehl (Incumbent) 11,528 99.20
Write-In Others920.80
2012 Election for Massachusetts' 7th Plymouth House District
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Geoff Diehl (Incumbent) 10,942 54.20
Democratic Robert L. Toomey, Jr.9,23245.70
Write-In Others250.10
2010 Election for Massachusetts' 7th Plymouth House District [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Geoff Diehl 8,553 51.24
Democratic Allen J. McCarthy8,13248.72
Write-In Others60.04

Personal life

Before he entered politics, Diehl was a member of the Whitman Finance Committee. He remains a member of the MetroSouth Chamber of Commerce and South Shore Chamber of Commerce. Diehl is also an Eagle Scout. Diehl and his wife, KathyJo, have two daughters. They live in Whitman, Massachusetts. [23]

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Massachusetts House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 7th Plymouth district

2011–2019
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Republican nominee for U.S. senator from Massachusetts
(Class 1)

2018
Most recent
Preceded by Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts
2022