CROMWELL -- Linda McMahon urged Republicans to unite Tuesday to support her campaign for U.S. Senate.
Surrounded by family and supporters at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Tuesday, McMahon came on stage to Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger," and gave her victory speech. She accepted the Republican Party's endorsement for the Senate seat that will be left vacant by Christopher Dodd.
She likened the Republican Party to a family. "Families don't always get along and don't always agree, but, in the end, they do stand together," McMahon said.
McMahon beat former Congressman Rob Simmons and businessman Peter Schiff for the endorsement, and the win means she will go against Democrat Richard Blumenthal, the state's current attorney general, in November's election.
Until recently, McMahon, 61, of Greenwich, was chief executive officer of World Wrestling Entertainment and a State Board of Education member. She resigned from both posts to focus on her run for office.