Primary election results to keep an eye on in Massachusetts

We're two weeks away from primary night here in Massachusetts. More than 630,000 voters have asked for mail-in ballots this year, and about a third of them have already been returned.

Primary contests traditionally draw relatively low turnout, but that doesn't mean there's nothing at stake.

If you care about the future of the Massachusetts GOP, the gubernatorial race between Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty is where the action is. Maura Healey's competitors in the Democratic primary dropped out months ago, leaving Doughty, a Charlie Baker-like technocrat, to run an uphill battle with the Trump-endorsed Diehl for the party nod.

"For the last 30 years, these unenrolled voters in Massachusetts have voted for people just like me," said Doughty in a July debate on the Howie Carr radio show that was the only direct encounter between the two candidates. Doughty claims that appeal makes him the more electable candidate in November.