Mass. AG Andrea Campbell Launches 2026 Reelection Bid

On Oct. 21–22 Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell formally launched her 2026 reelection campaign with a video and events in Boston’s South End, recounting her journey from foster care and public housing to Princeton and statewide office and noting she was the first Black woman elected statewide. She framed the bid around empathy, affordability and consumer protection and highlighted achievements including roughly $32 million recovered for underpaid workers and more than $400 million returned to families, plus a rideshare wage settlement. Campbell emphasized an activist, litigation-first approach — her office joined nearly 40 lawsuits against the Trump administration, which she says preserved about $3.01 billion of $3.18 billion targeted — and has launched efforts to protect young people from online harms. Her administration reorganized the AG’s office with new units (Reproductive Justice, Elder Justice, Gun Safety Enforcement and an Affordable Housing Unit), has enforced the MBTA Communities Act, sued the town of Milton and defended the state’s assault-weapons ban, and secured guilty verdicts in a Boston-area sex-trafficking case. She opened an investigation into the Boston Police Department’s gang unit amid some local pushback, has been endorsed by U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern and other local leaders, and as of the announcement no other candidates have declared.