Massachusetts Republicans See Path to Win House Seats in Blue State

With contested Republican primaries for two of the nine U.S. House seats in Massachusetts, state conservatives aren’t feeling as blue as the Democrats have historically left them feeling.

The last time a Republican represented Massachusetts in Washington DC was Scott Brown, a state Senator who was voted in to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) Kennedy died from complications stemming from brain cancer. After his special election victory, Brown lost his reelection bid to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

The last Republican elected to the U.S. House from Massachusetts was Peter Blute in 1997.

But Massachusetts Republican candidates believe 2022 could be different. They point to the possibility that the same voters who put progressives like Frank in office are exhausted by an overly-woke Democratic party, have been turned party faithless by President Joe Biden’s inflation-driving policies, and were “awakened” by a liberal government overreach during the COVID-19 shutdowns.

“This could be the year,” Jim Lyons, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, told The Epoch Times. “If there has ever been a time that Massachusetts Republicans have a chance of returning to Washington DC, it’s this election.”

Adding to increased confidence for the GOP is a whopping 77 percent of state voters who remain unenrolled with either party.

Dan Sullivan, who is running in two of the Bay State’s contested Republican primaries for a congressional seat in Washington DC, says, “that’s a lot of votes up for grabs.”

In Massachusetts, unenrolled voters can still participate in the primaries. They are given a choice at the polls to cast their vote as either a Republican or a Democrat.

Sullivan, a surgical nurse at a community hospital, is hoping they will vote Republican in the state’s 9th district, and he is hoping to be their choice to unseat longtime incumbent Bill Keating, a Democrat, in the

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