Linda McMahon showered Connecticut’s women with professions of solidarity. They still didn’t trust her — so they handed the U.S. Senate seat she coveted to a man for the second time in three years.
McMahon ran the most expensive campaign in state history, and one of the most expensive ever in America, to try to capture Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday. She lost anyway. Decisively. Her Democratic opponent, Chris Murphy, was declared the winner within moments of the polls closing.