Chris Mur­phy’s Repub­li­can chal­lenger revealed after con­tentious Con­necti­cut Sen­ate GOP pri­ma­ry

Mil­i­tary vet­er­an Matthew Corey has won the Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry to face Demo­c­ra­t­ic Con­necti­cut Sen. Chris Mur­phy in the fall.Corey, who owns a bar in Hart­ford, Con­necti­cut, was run­ner-up in the state GOP’s nom­i­nat­ing con­ven­tion in May. He pre­vi­ous­ly lost to Mur­phy in 2018.He defeat­ed insur­ance agent and small-town offi­cial Ger­ry Smith, who was favored by the Con­necti­cut Repub­li­can Par­ty. CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKING IN THE 2024 ELEC­TION­Smith man­aged to out­raise Corey dur­ing the pri­ma­ry cycle, with the lat­ter bring­ing in just over $30,000 in indi­vid­ual con­tri­bu­tions com­pared to Smith’s rough­ly $62,000 haul, accord­ing to cam­paign finance data.But Smith end­ed the pri­ma­ry cycle with less cash on hand than Corey did – rough­ly $4,200 com­pared to $32,000.The pri­ma­ry win­ner now faces an uphill climb to the U.S. Sen­ate, how­eve …