HARTFORD, Conn. — In a surprising turnaround, former Connecticut House Republican leader Themis Klarides dropped out of the race for governor Sunday and is instead running for the U.S. Senate.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been discussing the possibility for the past week, but Klarides avoided interviews in recent days so that she could make her announcement exclusively on a television news show with a large audience of political insiders.
Klarides said she changed her mind after constantly hearing from voters about the gridlock and dysfunction in Washington, D.C., that she said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal has not done enough to improve.
