Professional wrestling fans won’t see Glenn Beck tonight when they tune in for Monday Night Raw. The WWE franchise invited Beck to appear on tonight’s show after the talk show host and conservative pundit panned as “stupid” a character with...
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The Miz and John Cena battle during their WWE match at the WWE Monday Night Raw Supershow Halloween event at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, in this file photo.
Glenn Beck’s WWE Smackdown
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, center, campaigns with Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon, right, in Waterbury, Conn., on Oct. 22, 2012.
McMahon on Mat? — Poll Countdown
Rep. Chris Murphy, the Democratic nominee for Connecticut’s open Senate seat, is pulling away from his Republican challenger, Linda McMahon, the former chief executive officer and founder of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., a Quinnipiac University poll shows. Murphy led McMahon,...
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon greets supporters outside Harborside Middle School in Milford, Connecticut, in this file photo.
McMahon Seeks Obama Voters in Connecticut Senate Race
Linda McMahon, a Connecticut Republican seeking a U.S. Senate seat in the Nov. 6 election, knows that President Barack Obama probably will carry her Democratic-leaning state by a comfortable margin. So the former wrestling executive is trying to convince Obama...
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Connecticut Republican Senate candidates, former wrestling executive Linda McMahon and former Rep. Christopher Shays before their Senate debate on the University of Connecticut campus on June 14, 2012.
McMahon vs. Shays: Can You Smell What Connecticut’s Cooking?
Written by Leslie Hoffecker and Derek Wallbank for BGov’s Congress Tracker A wrestling entrepreneur seeking a second go-round in the senatorial ring, a four-term governor hoping for a political comeback and two House incumbents — one a powerful committee chairman...
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