Dem Senator Hospitalized With Stroke
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Democrat Senator Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.
According to a statement, “Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke.”
The statement also said, “The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery.”
Sen. Chris Murphy is being hospitalized following a stroke, an aide to the Connecticut Democrat said Sunday.
“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,” Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, said in a statement.
“He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment. The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery,” she added.
Murphy is 53 years old.
He has represented Connecticut in the Senate since 2013.
Murphy, 53, has represented Connecticut in the Senate since 2013, after serving three years in the House. The Connecticut Democrat has been viewed as a possible 2028 White House contender, and has crisscrossed the country in recent weeks propping up Democrats in the midterm elections.
