SOME OF Y’ALL WERE LOOKING FOR HOUSE RACES WHERE YOU COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Salena Zito: John Chrin, Teamster-turned-banker, tries to turn a blue district red.

Brooks has decided that he is going all in for Chrin, a Teamster-turned-Wall Street banker who is holding his own against a rising blue tide.

“I like this guy,” Brooks said. “What I like about him is that he has a proven track record on successful business, and that’s what I like to see in a congressman is a businessman, as opposed to a lawyer. I think we have way too many lawyers in the House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate, and I really like the success that he has done in business.”

Chrin’s challenge isn’t insurmountable. When the Democrat-controlled state Supreme Court redrew the congressional map in favor of Democrats, they may have made reelection harder for Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright.

Cartwright went from a once-safe Democratic seat, where he made consistently progressive and liberal votes, to the new 8th Congressional District, which made his already-trending-Republican seat into one that could be persuaded by the right candidate and message to put a Republican in the House.

Chrin is making a pretty good case that he could be that guy.

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Chrin’s website is here.