In announcing her endorsement, Rep. Jahana Hayes said she was impressed by Sen. Kamala Harris’ performance at the Democratic debate last week.
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Lamont endorses Biden as other Dems wait and watch
For most Democrats, including those who represent the state in Congress, it’s too politically risky to make an endorsement.
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CT activists are giving early to White House hopefuls
Hundreds of Connecticut donors have already contributed to candidates in the 2020 race for the White House.
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Biden enters the fray, but will CT Dems back him?
Biden leads his 19 Democratic competitors in the polls, but CT voters might not get to vote for him in the state’s primary because it’s scheduled late in the season.
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Biden steps up defense of conduct
Amy Lappos of Connecticut is the second woman to say Joe Biden touched her inappropriately.
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Obama says election a choice ‘about who we are as a people’
PHILADELPHIA — Led by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic National Convention shook off shook off two nights of intra-party dissent Wednesday to deliver a relentless assault on the character and temperament of Republican Donald J. Trump and his dark view of an America in decline.
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CT lawmakers help Dems hone strategy, message
BALTIMORE – Connecticut lawmakers are gathering here with their House Democratic colleagues to network and plan strategy in a key political year for their party. Connecticut’s all-Democratic House delegation has been in the minority since 2011 and likely will continue to be after November’s elections.
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Trump, Clinton lead GOP, Democratic fields in Connecticut
A Quinnipiac University poll of Connecticut voters brought unsettling news Tuesday to both parties: Their presidential frontrunners are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but both candidates are viewed negatively by a majority of voters. Ben Carson trails Clinton by only 2 points in a general-election matchup.
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Malloy blasts Giuliani remark that Obama doesn’t love America
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said in Washington Friday that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s recent comment that President Obama did not love America was “despicable.”
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CT youth attend White House effort to improve foster care
WASHINGTON – Five Connecticut teenagers were among dozens of children in foster care invited to Washington this week to attend a White House event entitled “Improving Outcomes for Our Nation’s Foster Youth.”
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Biden praises slain journalist at stop in East Hartford
Vice President Joe Biden praised James Foley, the U.S. journalist beheaded on videotape by Iraqi terrorists, at an event Wednesday in East Hartford, a stop on a political swing through Connecticut to raise money for the Democratic Governors Association and the state Democratic Party.
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Murphy joins Biden, McCain in trip to Eastern Europe
Sen. Chris Murphy has just returned from a weekend trip to Eastern Europe, where he attended the inauguration of new Ukrainian President Petro O. Poroshenko in Kiev as part of an eight-member U.S. delegation that included Vice President Joe Biden and Arizona Sen. John McCain.