Breaking down Massachusetts' historic election

Earlier this week Massachusetts voters made history when they elected Maura Healey as Governor of Massachusetts. She’ll be the first women and openly gay person to hold the office. They also sent four other women to statewide offices including Andrea Campbell, who won her bid for Attorney General, making her the first Black woman to be elected to a statewide office In Massachusetts.

Dr. Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, director of the Center for Women in politics and public policy at UMass Boston, joins the show to help us deconstruct the significance of this election.