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Carl Paladino was one of the most surprising winners in Tuesday's primaries, soundly defeating Rick Lazio for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in New York. He will now face Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in the November election. Although the relationship between Paladino and much of the Republican Party has been chilly over the past few months, the Paladino campaign said the GOP leadership is reaching out and they're ready to work together.

"We've been contacted by several different national Republican leaders congratulating Carl and telling Carl that they're looking forward to working with him," Paladino campaign manager Michael Caputo told the Huffington Post, although he wouldn't identify which officials have contacted them. "We've also heard from the Republican leadership of the New York State party in a conciliatory fashion. We're looking forward to bringing everybody inside to work toward victory on the 2nd of November."

Alex Carey, director of communications for the New York State GOP, said that the party is "throwing all our support behind Mr. Paladino." "Our chairman, Ed Cox, called Carl last night, and Carl called him back within minutes," said Carey on Wednesday. "The two of them had a good conversation and agreed that they're looking forward to working together." He added that because Paladino "tapped into a whole different pool of voters," he expects him to drive turnout and make the race against Cuomo very competitive.

One interesting player in the race will be the Republican Governors Association (RGA). On Tuesday night, the organization put out statements congratulating the GOP gubernatorial primary winners in Maryland, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. Missing, however, was a full statement on Paladino's win, although RGA Political Director Paul Bennecke tweeted, "Congrats to NY GOP nominee for Gov, Carl Paladino: www.PaladinoforthePeople.com #RGA."

Neither Lazio nor Paladino was RGA Chairman Haley Barbour's preferred choice; he had courted Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who lost to Lazio at the state's nominating convention. Tea Party favorite Paladino "finished a distant third out of four candidates" at the time.

Caputo said that the campaign had heard from the RGA after Paladino's win, and they would be talking with the national group today. "I think everybody was a bit surprised by the mandate Carl got from Republicans, and they're trying to figure out what it means, not just for the New York Republican Party, but for the national Republican Party," said Caputo, who noted that before Tuesday, none of these officials had ever contacted the campaign. "I think this disaffected Republicans have been a real surprise for every election in the nation, and Carl's was the biggest surprise of all. Not just because they didn't expect Carl, but they didn't expect Carl to just absolutely whack Lazio."

"Mothers Opposing McMahon," a group funded by the Connecticut Democratic Party, is out with a new ad seeking to ensure that one of Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon's biggest points of contention, her controversial past as a former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, doesn't get swept under the rug.

The spot intersperses video of a recent McMahon ad with interviews of discontented former professional wrestlers protesting the corporation for poor oversight, lax or non-existent safety regulations and a culture that encouraged steroid use.

The ad appears to be filling the void that that Democratic candidate Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has chosen to leave in the field of negative attacks regarding the more lurid side of McMahon's former company.

According to a Connecticut Mirror report, Blumenthal's shying away from attack ads has been a conscious and calculated decision done for the purpose of drawing a contrast to the heavy barrage of attacks leveled by the McMahon campaign.

Despite Blumenthal's aversion to explicitly making mention of the WWE skeletons in McMahon's closet, the Mirror reports that "his campaign has quietly and insistently tried to focus the state's political press and editorial writers on the dark side of the business that produced her fortune."

And that "dark side" appears to be cropping up in McMahon's personal life more than she'd like to admit. On top of currently facing fire from the father of WWE wrestler Lance Cade, who died at 29 due to heart failure, WWE is also receiving attacks from the friends and families of other dead wrestlers such as Eddie Guerrero Llanes, who also died of heart failure in 2005 after a long struggle with substance abuse, Eki "Eddie" Fatu, who died last year after taking a fatal dose of numerous painkillers, and Chris Benoit, who murdered his wife and son before taking his own life in 2007.

According to the Mirror report, McMahon recently claimed that she wasn't "really questioned and pushed very much on the negative aspects of, you know, a scripted soap opera." She then described the issue as "the difference between being something that's entertaining and scripted versus real life issues."