Con­necti­cut Repub­li­can snags nom­i­na­tion to face off against long­time House Dem

Repub­li­can con­gres­sion­al can­di­date Michael Gold­stein won the pri­ma­ry for Con­necti­cut’s 4th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict and now faces an uphill bat­tle in Novem­ber matched up against long­time Demo­c­rat Con­gress­man Jim Himes.The pri­ma­ry saw two Repub­li­can can­di­dates vying for the nom­i­na­tion: physi­cian ​​Michael Gold­stein and for­mer finan­cial exec­u­tive Bob MacGuffie. MacGuffie, a for­mer local Tea Par­ty leader dur­ing the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion era, received the GOP’s endorse­ment at the dis­trict con­ven­tion in May over Gold­stein. The state’s 4th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict sits right out­side of New York City, encom­pass­ing cities such as Bridge­port, Fair­field and Green­wich. ‘SQUAD’ FACES FINAL PRIMARY CHALLENGE AS 4 STATES GO TO POLLS TUES­DAYThe pair did not dif­fer dras­ti­cal­ly from one anoth­er dur­ing the pri­ma­ry …