Outspoken Dem Sen. Chris Murphy Suffers Stroke During Son’s Hockey Game

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke at his son’s hockey game, his office said Sunday.

The Democrat, 53, felt numbness in his arm during the game Saturday and was rushed to a local hospital.

He was later moved to Johns Hopkins in Maryland, where he is “awake and alert,” according to chief of staff Allison Herwitt.

Doctors expect him to make a full recovery, she said. . .

The health scare comes two days before Tuesday’s midterm elections and just days after Murphy ripped a reported Pentagon plan to restart the war with Iran after Election Day. He wrote on X that he had been briefed on it and that “the plan is insane.”

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