With a frenzy of activity, the vice president and her allies are trying to strengthen her support with Black voters, whose growing alienation the party’s leaders had not confronted directly until now.

Massachusetts is far from a border state. But as Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Republican challenger, John Deaton, tries to turn the race into a referendum on the issue, he wants everyone to see it as one.

In a jam-packed debate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and John Deaton laid out their positions on immigration reform, the MCAS exam, and the lack of affordable housing in Massachusetts. The post Three initial takeaways from the first Warren/Deaton debate appeared first on Boston.

The Democratic congresswoman has raised considerably more than her Republican opponent but outside groups are helping both.