BOSTON—Bill Clinton is headlining a final rally for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley.
The former president will speak Friday on behalf of the Massachusetts attorney general. She is locked in a competitive race with Republican Scott Brown to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. The special election is Jan. 19.
Massachusetts was among Clinton's most supportive states during his two terms, and he previously taped an automated call on Coakley's behalf.
Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, will also break away from hip surgery recovery to speak at the rally. Democrats deny they are concerned about Brown staging an upset.
Kennedy died Aug. 25 of brain cancer. Businessman Joseph L. Kennedy, a Libertarian unrelated to the famed political family, is also mounting an independent Senate candidacy.
