Thomas Gilmer (R), the Republican party’s endorsed candidate in Connecticut’s congressional 2nd congressional district, dropped out of the race early this morning — just hours before polls opened for the state’s primary — after he was arrested over a violent encounter with an a former girlfriend, the Hartford Courant reports.
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