Fighting Trump 2.0 is helping lift Campbell’s political star. How far is the question.

Democrats have long demanded that their party respond more forcefully to President Trump’s efforts to slash funding and reorder the federal government as America knows it.

But there’s one figure for whom Massachusetts activistshave had few complaints — Andrea Campbell.

Massachusetts’ attorney general has sued the federal government more than 50 times since Trump took office last year, using millions of dollars in additional taxpayer funding to hire attorneys and form the state-level bulwark that, more often than not, beats the administration in court.

With that has come regular praise from fellow Democrats, ground-level enthusiasm on display at the state Democratic convention last month, where attendees lined up down the hallway before Campbell’sspeechto snap photos with her. Not unlike with Governor Maura Healey — who, as attorney general, forged a growing profile in battling Trump in court — supporters have already floated Campbell running for higher office.

“I had the thought, this is a future governor or senator when I was listening to that speech,” Rand Barthel, a 69-year-old delegate from Mendon, told the Globe after Campbell’s conventionspeech.

Campbell’s office has leaned into her successes jousting with the Trump administration, setting up an online dashboard publicly tracking her victories, and holding up Campbell as having “stepped up to defend Massachusetts families.”

Still, despite her growing profile, Campbell’s Trump fight is not the same political rocket fuel it once was. She is facing a more complicated legal and media environment than her predecessor, in which even allies acknowledge that responding to Trump requires more resources and mental wherewithal for the state’s top prosecutor to break through politically.

When interviewed by the Globe, the party’s fervent supporters more often named Massachusetts’ federal officials as those they see besttaking on Trump. And some insiders say the sheer number of actions Campbell took may be eating away at political points her successes would otherwise score.

“There’s a diminished interest because there’s so much going on, and there’s only so much attention and bandwidth people have to absorb that,” saidAndrea Cabral, who served as public safety secretary under Deval Patrick and backed Campbell’s unsuccessful2021 run for mayor of Boston.

As of Friday, Campbell has sued the federal government 59 times in the 16-plusmonths since Trump took office, according to a Globe analysis of Campbell’s legal actions.

While she filed the vast majority of those lawsuits in conjunction with other states, she has co-led more than 20 on issues including federal food assistance program funding,birthright citizenship, and public health research. Her office has touted protecting more than $3.8 billion in federal funding from cuts, a figure that changes by the day as her office files more actions.

She has alsosigned on to at least 59 amicus briefs supporting litigation against the federal government, the Globe found.

Those efforts drew raves from party activists at the state Democratic convention, whereshe made her battles with the Trump administration a centerpiece of her speech to more than 4,000 delegates.

“More than 50 times, my office and I have stood up and said to the president, ‘Not here. Not in Massachusetts. Not on our watch,’” Campbell said.

The room went wild.

“This is our moment,” she added amid raucous applause,“and the question is whether we are willing to meet it, not cautiously, not halfway, but fully and fearlessly,”

The Massachusetts Legislature last year gave Campbell’s office an additional $9 million to help support its Trump administration response, and is on track to increase that budget this yearby another $3.7 million.

Campbell declined a Globe interview request to discuss her Trump response efforts. But her office has used those funds to hire more than a dozen attorneys and additional staff specifically focused on responding to the federal government.

Paul Nolette, a Marquette University professor who studies attorneys general, said Massachusetts has routinely “punched above its weight” for an office of its size. By his count, Massachusetts has filed morelawsuits against the federal administration than at least 45 other states, with state attorneys general with larger staffs in California and New York leading the way.

Of the more than 100 lawsuits Democratic attorneys general have filed, they’ve achieved a greater than 80 percent success rate in temporarily pausing, if not stopping altogether, actions from the Trump administration, Nolette said.

“I’ve worked on multistate litigation for over 40 years, and I’ve never seen this level of cooperation and coordination,” said Jim Tierney, a former Maine attorney general who now teaches at Harvard.

Healey, by comparison, took part in 96 lawsuits against the federal government across herentire first four-year term — a staggering number Campbell is on pace to top.

Those lawsuits helped propel Healey to her current role: She garnered substantial attention, giving interviews to national outlets such as Vanity Fair, and referenced her work as attorney general during her successful2022 gubernatorial campaign.

Healey spent eight years in the job, proving to be a fund-raising force and bucking what was a bit of a curse: Before Healey, six other attorneys general ran for governor, and lost, in the previous six decades.

To Erin O’Brien, a political science professor at UMass Boston, “If the past is prologue, that looks pretty good for Andrea Campbell.” But she also acknowledged Campbell has yet to see quite the same attention as Healey, in part because of the onslaught of actions coming out of the White House.

“The modal Democratic voter knew more of what Healey was doing to confront the Trump administration in a role as AG than they do on what Campbell’s doing, which has nothing to do with her and everything to do with the context that Trump 2.0 is just more egregious on more fronts,” O’Brien said.

As a result, Campbell’s work may not have fully entered the consciousness of some of even the party’s biggest supporters. In interviews with nearly 20 delegates at the state Democratic convention, the majority named Massachusetts’ congressional delegation members, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ayanna Pressley when asked who they saw as best fighting Trump.

A few said they worried Democratic infighting had hurt Campbell’s political standing, referencing her dispute with state Auditor Diana DiZoglio, who for months publicly accused Campbell of stalling her efforts to deliver on a voter-backed ballot question to allow her to audit the Legislature. Campbell, after a recent Supreme Judicial Court ruling, said the auditor could hire an outside attorney to represent her legal efforts.

“I have supported them both and … I wish the two of them would just come up with a way to work this out,” said Kathy Fox Alfano, 68, a Bourne delegate who wore a “72%” sticker referencing the share of voters who supported the audit ballot question.

Campbell is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Michael Walsh, a Republican attorney, is running for attorney general and has made the audit a focus of his campaign pitch.

“Our current attorney general is too busy suing the president. She’s pushing a personal and partisan agenda,” Walsh told Republicans at their state convention in April. “She’s so busy doing that that she isn’t doing her job as attorney general.”

Laura Ashley Aronow, a former biomedical research coordinator from Arlington, who was laid off when her research lost federal funding, said it can be frustrating for courts to take months to “finally catch up” with Trump’s actions. But Aronow remains grateful for Campbell’s efforts.

“When I hear about this, it’s like, ‘OK, so that horrible thing that caused me a lot of anxiety the other day, maybe that’s not going to happen, that’s been solved,’” she said of Campbell’s work. “She does give us some hope that there is a system that’s working.”