{"id":319053,"date":"2026-11-01T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319053\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:44:09","slug":"sen-chris-murphy-had-a-stroke-and-is-in-the-hospital-his-office-says-ap-top-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319053\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Chris Murphy had a stroke and is in the hospital, his office says | Ap-top-news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/chris-murphy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Murphy<\/a> is in the hospital after having a stroke, according to the Connecticut Democrat&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Sunday, Murphy&#8217;s 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<p>\u201cHe was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,\u201d she said. &#8220;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old Murphy was elected to the House in 2006 and the Senate in 2012. He is not on the ballot Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate, he serves on the Appropriations Committee and is a leading voice on immigration and restrictions on guns. He&#8217;s considered a contender for more senior leadership positions in the Senate and is also a potential 2028 presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Three other Senate Democrats have had strokes in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland had strokes in 2022 and have since recovered. Pennsylvania Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/john-fetterman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Fetterman<\/a> had a stroke while campaigning for his seat that same year and now uses adaptive technology in the Senate, including live captioning on a phone or tablet that transcribes words as people speak to him and helps him process the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman said on social media Sunday that his family \u201cis rooting for Chris and his family for a full and speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several Republican senators, including Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska also offered prayers for Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sen. Chris Murphy is in the hospital after having a stroke, according to the Connecticut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,129771,38,1057,50,19991,10224],"class_list":["post-319053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-chris-murphy-stroke-senate-connecticut","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-politics","tag-stroke","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}