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updated 8:41 AM EDT, Tue September 23, 2014

Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, is fighting to keep his Senate seat this November.

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Washington (CNN) -- Embattled Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is enlisting high-profile GOP leaders to help his re-election chances, including former Senate majority leader and fellow Kansan Robert Dole.

The 91-year-old Dole campaigned Monday night in Dodge City with Roberts. That is the town Roberts listed as his residence, but the house is owned by two supporters. Dole, who will also appear alongside Roberts on Tuesday, last week taped a TV ad touting the three-term senator and has offered advice behind the scenes.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is considering running for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, will attend a fundraiser and public event for Roberts next Monday. He is stepping up his efforts on behalf of Republican candidates, hosting a Florida fundraiser Tuesday for several GOP Senate candidates.

"Sens. Bob Dole, John McCain, Rand Paul and Congressman Paul Ryan are all confirmed to campaign in Kansas as well. The Republican Party is uniting around Pat Roberts because he is the only candidate in this race who will ensure Harry Reid is no longer in control of the Senate," the campaign said.

The Kansas race has become competitive. Democrat Chad Taylor dropped out, leaving independent Greg Orman, a businessman, as Roberts' sole opponent.

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Republican lieutenant governor candidate Heather Somers on Tuesday wrote to Democratic Governor Dannel P. Malloy asking him to immediately suspend Connecticut's prison early release program for violent and serious offenders and to release statistics on the number of convicted violent criminals scheduled to be released in the next month.

Somers, who is running for statewide office alongside Greenwich businessman Tom Foley, also called for the resignation of Malloy's criminal justice undersecretary Mike Lawlor - "for his design of the new RREC program, his misrepresentations of the program's failures as successes...and his willingness to endanger Connecticut families and residents to protect the program he has helped to develop."

The Risk Reduction Earned Credits program offers leniency to offenders who enroll in classes, work a job, or fulfill a drug treatment course.

"According to statistics offered by Undersecretary Lawlor, roughly two-thirds of released prisoners are expected to commit another crime within three years of their release," Somers said in her letter. "There is a dual implication in the failure of the early release program. The criminal justice system in Connecticut under Governor Malloy is not rehabilitating convicted criminals."

Somers also cited figures that show over half of the early released criminals are either violent offenders or "serious offenders" (large scale drug dealers).

The governor's office, however, responded with statistics of their own - and pointed to figures that show early releases in the first three years of Malloy's administration dropped 10 percent from the number of early releases in the last three years of former governor Jodi Rell's administration. The total number of prisoners released during Malloy's first three years was down 16 percent from the total in Rell's last three years. In 2013, violent crime was down 11 percent from the previous year and murders were at a 40-year-low.

In response to previous Republican criticisms of the program, Malloy has pointed to those statistics and accused his opponents of using scare tactics "to win an election." He has said a drop in the recidivism rate - which measures how many prisoners re-enter the corrections system after they are released - since he became governor indicates a successful and rehabilitative corrections policy.

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A newly upholstered chair and an American flag dominated Village Square Mall on the west side of Dodge City, the Kansas hometown of Sen. Pat Roberts, who is seeking re-election. But the man who took the seat and who commanded the audience of more than 200 wasn't Roberts.

"He's your friend, my friend, Kansas' friend, and Kansas' greatest senator, Bob Dole," Roberts said.

The Monday campaign event for Roberts, who is locked in a suddenly tough re-election battle in typically Republican Kansas, was more an honor ceremony for Dole, the 91-year-old former Senate majority leader, World War II veteran and 1996 Republican presidential nominee.

Dole held court for nearly an hour, reminiscing about his 46 years in Congress, his effort to spearhead the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. and, now and then, Roberts.

"Pat and I have been friends for some time," said Dole. "When I had a problem in the House getting a bill passed, I'd call Pat."

But Dole's and Roberts' tones were distinct.

Dole hearkened back to his collaboration with the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan to ensure that Social Security remains solvent through 2027, recalling how they agreed: "We can't let this fail. There are 30 million Americans who rely on Social Security."

By contrast, Roberts argued that only a Republican majority could fix the Senate's impasse and referred to Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid as "a dictator."

"We have to get the Senate back so we can get things going again," Roberts said.

Republicans need to gain six seats to capture the majority and until this month, Roberts was not considered vulnerable.

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