Nov. 1, 8:11 p.m. – Sen. Richard Blumenthal added “I am really, very, very hopeful that he will be the same, very fit, energetic, thoughtful and dedicated senator that he has been a great partner.”<\/p>\n
Nov. 1, 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Gov. Ned Lamont shared his support and well wishes for the senator on social media.<\/p>\n
Nov. 1, 1:49 p.m. \u2014 Sen. Richard Blumenthal told News 12, \u201cI\u2019m thinking of my great friend and colleague Chris Murphy. I know him to be a fierce fighter, and I am certain that I\u2019ll be welcoming him back to the Senate very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nov. 1, 1:39 p.m. \u2014 Local leaders took to social media to express support for Murphy. <\/p>\n
Nov. 1, 1:07 p.m. \u2014 Sen. Chris Murphy is in the hospital after having a stroke, according to the Connecticut Democrat\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
In a statement Sunday, Murphy\u2019s chief of staff, Allison Herwitt, said the senator \u201cstarted experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son\u2019s hockey game\u201d on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,\u201d she said. \u201cHe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Murphy is 53.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press contributed to this reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 1, 8:11 p.m. – Sen. Richard Blumenthal added “I am really, very, very hopeful that he will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-390676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}