After for a second campaign for U.S. Senate, former CEO of WWE and Greenwich resident is now urging GOP rival and former to drop out of the race.
"I would really hope that Congressman Shays would ... understand how more effective it would be if we were a unified party moving forward now to take on Congressman Murphy," McMahon said on WFSB-TV's "Face the State" on Sunday.
McMahon garnered 730 votes, or 60.4 percent of delegates, during the state Republican Convention in Hartford Friday night, while Shays netted 389 votes, or 32.2 percent — enough to force a primary.
In a separate segment on "Face the State," Shays said getting to the primary was "the second stage" in his bid for retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman's seat. He said he had many supporters who went to great lengths to get him to the primary.
Either McMahon or Shays will likely face Democratic nominee and current U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy in the November election. Murphy won convincingly at the Democratic State Convention on May 12, garnering 1,378 out of 1,842 delegates to secure the Democrats' nomination. However Murphy also faces a primary with former CT Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz.
Therefore, since we are soon to worsen the greatest depression, I'd rather hit rock bottom sooner by electing a democrat than suffer longer before rock bottom by electing a republican. So either way, whoever wins, just hurry up already and drive the bus off the cliff. Perhaps I will sign up. I plan to vote Obama for this same reason. The sooner it all crashes down the sooner we can rebuild.
Blumenthal, a hardcore, extremely popular liberal connecticut career politician only beat Mcmahon by 53-46. This was A LOT closer than I expected for CT. Chris Murphy is such a putz and is nowhere near as revered as Blumenthal is/was. I seriously do think McMahon can win but If she does it will be very close. It will probably be closer to 51-49. After what Malloy has done, many independents must be really turned off to democrats. Many moderates and democrats have got to be pissed off at the democrats in CT just as they are with Obama. After what has been going on lately, the entire Republican party EVERYWHERE in the US has really gotten out of their seats. I think the shift is starting to happen where a Republican will win soon and things will start to change in CT. Ultimately, it may just come down to massive voter fraud. I think McMahon will definitely win if worst comes to worst just for this reason alone. It's the same reason Mitt Romney will eventually win the republican nomination even though Ron Paul is winning. The GOP has disenfranchised sooooo many potential Ron Paul delegates - most recently at the Arizona state convention. The mega rich usually get their way. I predict McMahon (for better or worse) will win. Anyhow, I really wish people would stop bashing her because of her business. It is totally absurd and uncalled for.
Actually, McMahon's loss in 2010 was by a margin of 11.8% (55.1% to 43.3%). That's after she outspent her opponent more than five to one ($50 million to $9m), and after it had become a known fact that Blumenthal had lied about serving in Vietnam. If your opponent in an election lied about his military service and you outspend him by $41 million dollars - in a cycle that favors your party - and you still lose by double digit margins, your political career is dead in the water. On the other hand, if you've won 18 of 19 elections you've participated in (10 of them for the U.S. House of Representatives) and a recent poll has you in a dead heat with both frontrunners from the opposing party, you're in a great spot. That's Christopher Shays. Let's review: McMahon is oh for one on $50 million in spending in a cycle that favored Republicans. Shays is 18 for 19 on a total of $15 million in cycles that usually did not favor Republicans. Andrew: who, again, did you call a 'horrible' candidate? Just to cite my sources: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/ct/connecticut_senate_mcmahon_vs_blumenthal-1145.html http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?cycle=2010&id=CTS2 http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=Career&type=I&cid=N00000652&newMem=N
I would rather lose by supporting a better candidate than win "just to have a republican" Just look at how that turned out with the Scott Brown loser. Oh yay we got a republican, oh wait he's a democrat running as a republican.