Republican Campbell on secretary of state ballot

Democrats raised $12 million in the day after news broke about the draft opinion, according to ActBlue, which processes online donations for Democratic-aligned candidates and groups, the Associated

Press reported. Republican Rayla Campbell, who took on U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley last go around, has made it onto the ballot in the race for secretary of state

.“I want people to have a voice and vote in person and by paper,” Campbell told the Herald. “It’s our civic duty to go in and cast out ballots.” Longtime Democratic Secretary of State William Galvin is facing Tanisha Sullivan, a prominent Black lawyer elected president of the Boston NAACP who is running her very first statewide campaign.

The primaries are Sept. 6 and the general election Nov. 8.

MassGOP is backing Campbell saying “they couldn’t keep a good woman down.”

Campbell faced a lot of blowback for running against Pressley in 2020 -- including a fractured leg bone in a tussle with two women after a New Bedford Trump rally. That write-in campaign is now just a lesson learned.

“I’m not afraid and I’m not backing down,” she said. “It’s tough being a black Republican in Massachusetts.”

She said “one-party rule” in the state has compelled her to try again. “I don’t get scared easily,” she added.