Never leave your wingman, Maverick.
After siding with his friend and longtime political ally Christopher Shays in the primary phase of the campaign, John McCain will now stump for fellow Republican Linda McMahon for Senate.
The Arizona senator and 2008 GOP presidential nominee is scheduled to appear at McMahon’s Norwalk field office Oct. 1, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers has learned.
McCain co-hosted a June 5 fundraiser for McMahon’s primary foe, Shays, in Washington, D.C.
McMahon went on to win the primary in a runaway over McCain’s ally on campaign finance reform, however.
The relationship between McMahon and her party’s standard bearers is an intriguing one.
A day before McCain comes to Connecticut, McMahon is expected to be a no-show for a pair of fundraisers with vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan in Darien and her hometown of Greenwich.
While she has sought to distance herself from the likes of Sarah Palin and disavowed Mitt Romney’s “victim” comments, McMahon did appear this weekend with another Alaskan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.