The super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan is opening two field offices in Pennsylvania’s vacant 18th Congressional District to boost Republican fortunes in an upcoming special election.

Congressional Leadership Fund plans to parachute into the southwestern Pennsylvania seat and deploy its voter turnout operation to bolster Republican nominee Rick Saccone, a state representative, in the March 13 contest. The race was triggered last fall after Republican Tim Murphy was forced to resign from Congress amid a sex scandal.

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