Lisa Hagen

At the Democratic National Convention, Gov. Tim Walz had an enthusiastic rooting section in the Connecticut delegation from U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, a classmate from the watershed election of 2006, and Gov. Ned Lamont, who was elected governor in Connecticut in 2018, the same year as Walz in Minnesota.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who has been an outspoken messenger on curbing gun violence, returned to the convention stage in a different capacity: as Democrats’ lead negotiator on a bipartisan border bill that ultimately got short-circuited in Congress.

With the farewell to President Joe Biden a night earlier, Democrats wanted to turn the page Tuesday night to focus squarely on the excitement of their new nominee, Kamala Harris.

Former Connecticut U.S. Rep. Chris Shays is visiting the Democratic National Convention — and expressing his support for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Connecticut’s 74 delegates, plus five alternates, are attending the Democratic National Convention this week. That includes all of Connecticut’s federal lawmakers as well as the state’s constitutional officers, like Gov. Ned Lamont.

Turnout was low as Connecticut Republicans chose nominees for the U.S. Senate and the 4th Congressional District. Matthew Corey prevailed in the GOP primary for the Senate, beating the party-endorsed candidate. But Corey faces a much tougher fight in November in a state where Republicans have not won a Senate race in over four decades.

Connecticut Republicans are set to battle for their party’s nomination in two primaries as the state’s GOP struggles to regain a foothold in Congress in a political environment that has swung heavily toward Democrats for years. The GOP primary candidates differ more on personality and the style in which they prosecute the case against Democratic incumbents.

The reckoning over the U.S. Coast Guard’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations at its New London service academy has shifted to the enlisted side as survivors recounted stories of experiencing assault and harassment while serving. Five current and former Coast Guard members testified at a U.S. Senate field hearing.

As Vice President Kamala Harris works to introduce a running mate who is not well-known at a national level, elected officials in Connecticut say they know Tim Walz well, touting their personal and working relationships that they built while he was in Congress and now as a governor.

Efforts to expand the federal child tax credit will likely fall short during this session of Congress after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill with tax breaks for low-income families and businesses. Democrats, led in part by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut have pushed for the full 2021 expansion of the child tax credit, but the bill had a much smaller boost.