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Wolf-PAC Shows Strength In Special Election
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"In the 32nd Senate District, Berthel won comfortably over Democrat Greg Cava of Roxbury in a race that Democratic activists worked with some success to nationalize as a referendum on Trump: In the most Republican Senate district in the state, Cava lost by 10 percentage points, which Democrats say is their best showing there in decades.
Wolf PAC, a national political action committee, made more than $50,000 in independent expenditures in support of Cava, who lost the same seat by a 2-1 margin in November to Sen. Rob Kane, R-Watertown, who resigned to accept the post of Republican state auditor. Cava campaigned against Trump as much as Berthel.
After losing three Senate seats and eight House seats in November, despite Hillary Clinton’s carrying the state over Trump, Democrats were ready to celebrate the results of the special elections Tuesday as harbingers of better things to come in 2018.
“This was a resounding rejection of Donald Trump’s presidency, which is spiraling out of control,” said Geoff Luxenberg, the Democratic consultant who managed Cava’s campaign. “For this election to be that close, and for Democratic turnout to be double the 2008 special election for the same seat, speaks volumes about how frustrated people in Connecticut are with Donald Trump.”
Matt Walter of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which made about $350,000 in independent expenditures in support of a selection of GOP legislative candidates in 2016 and spent about $15,000 to help Berthel, said an all-out effort by Democrats to elect Cava failed.”*
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