Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley says she has backup to overcome her lack of foreign policy experience.

She told WTKK-FM on Monday "we have a commander in chief. We have a secretary of state. We have a senior senator in Massachusetts, John Kerry, who has a ton of experience with foreign relations."

The attorney general says she'll develop her own expertise in office.

She says she has "experience problem solving, with judgment, with understanding what the issues are."

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Coakley is running to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Also seeking the Democratic nomination are Rep. Michael Capuano (cap-yoo-AH'-noh), City Year co-founder Alan Khazei (KAY'-zee) and Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca (pah-lee-OOH'-kah).

State Sen. Scott Brown of Wrentham and Duxbury attorney Jack E. Robinson seek the Republican nomination.