MANCHESTER, N.H. —

Republican state Sen. Dan Innis is suspending his campaign for U.S. Senate and is encouraging another GOP contender to do the same.

Innis was gearing up to run a swashbuckling, outsider campaign for U.S. Senate, but at the beginning of this month, former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu turned the race upside down.

"I wanted a good conservative voice to go to D.C. for this seat, and that's why I jumped in," Innis said. "But now we've got John Sununu coming in. This is a good conservative as well, and I'm getting behind him because I think he'll be terrific in Washington, D.C."

Innis is suspending his campaign and joining the effort to draft Sununu into the race. He's also encouraging the other top GOP contender, former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, to help clear the Republican fiel

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