The Connecticut Republican Party chairman is publicly urging Senate candidate Sam Caligiuri to switch races and run against Rep. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Chris Healy's statement, which was just released, makes public what many have suggested privately since the state senator, Caligiuri, entered the race. Caligiuri is seen as a rising star, but he has been drowned out of the Senate race by four well-funded opponents. In the meantime, he was a rare bright spot for the GOP in 2006, when he took Murphy's state Senate seat from the Democrats.
Republican Afghanistan veteran Justin Bernier has raised about $200,000 for the race and was recently added to the National Republican Congressional Committee's (NRCC) Young Guns program.
Caligiuiri has raised about $320,000 for the Senate race and could use all of it for a House run, but he would start with about $30,000 less in cash on hand than Bernier.
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