“We’re going to be working as hard as we can to convince the Republican voters that if you want someone who can win and you don’t want Chris Murphy, then I’m you guy,” Chris Shays told reporters when he cleared the 181 votes needed to qualify for a US Senate primary. When asked what McMahon’s tactics will be, “She’s back…” Shays replied. “It means spend whatever it takes, flood your mailboxes, flood your emails. You are going to just be overwhelmed with what’s she’s going to tell you. But in the end that’s not what it takes to win. You spend $50 million and you lose by 12 percent…Money cannot buy an election. We’re going to have a good race. I look forward to having one-on-one debates qwith her and I’ll live with the results of the primary. I do want to make this point: Win or lose, on August 14, I will be back out on the trail helping all the Republicans I can win this election…If I had beaten her at this convention, I think she couldn’t have run. They’ve been going around saying I wouldn’t even get 15 p[ercent and that’s obviously not true…”