He did commit to working across the aisle with Republican colleagues to pass bills to lower prices and increase kids’ safety online — all while continuing to stand up for women’s reproductive rights and other foundational Democratic Party principles.
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10:04 p.m. Not giving up: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro with supporters after delivering post-election remarks at the Shubert, predicting that Kamala Harris will win the presidency as the NYT needle predicted otherwise.
Incumbent Democratic state representatives crushed three Republican challengers in New Haven Tuesday night, as U.S. Senator Chris Murphy won a third six-year term representing Connecticut. the victors in the statewide Connecticut vote moments after polls closed. As national projections looked dour for Harris’s nationwide prospects, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro still projected confidence for her at a Shubert Theater gathering for her own projected victory.
Jesus of Nazareth, meanwhile, won a write-in vote on the east side of town.
Read on for moment-by-moment election updates from Independent reporters in the field.
Following are results of votes cast at polling places in New Haven Tuesday as well as the 9,034 early votes. (Thank you, Moderator Kevin Arnold!) They do not include results of 1,758 absentee ballots that were returned as of Sunday night, election-day registration votes, and approximately 300 overseas votes. As of Tuesday New Haven had 58,405 registered voters. Meanwhile, click here for results we’re gathering for New Haven machine votes in the U.S. House and state rep races and the statewide universal absentee-ballot referendum.
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Debby Sauls and Rae Dehal, with Sauls's dog Jules: Nervous about the election, glad to be in community.
MSNBC election updates blared across TV screens at queer space and pan-Asian restaurant Blue Orchid, while upbeat music played throughout the bar at around 8:50 p.m.
A couple dozen people sat at the counter and around the restaurant eating and drinking, some with a blue shot that they could get for free if they showed an “I VOTED” sticker.
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EDR detritus at City Hall.
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Luisa Miliano: Thrilled to vote, regardless of line.
(Updated) Four hours after arriving at City Hall to cast her first vote as a new U.S. citizen, Luisa Miliano found herself still waiting and waiting — along with 100 others — to make it to the end of Election Day Registration.
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Memori votes for Kamala Harris.
As dozens of children lined up to drop “ballots” into a “ballot box” in a Newhallville-based kid election, 9‑year-old Memori cast a vote for Kamala Harris, while 11-year-old Syair cast a vote for Donald Trump.
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Makenzie Webber: "No Trump."
Tyrone White: "He's got what it takes to run this country."
The wait is on, for Election Day Registration.
Makenzie Webber waited and waited and waited — for two and a half hours — to same-day register and then vote for Kamala Harris. Tyrone White eyed that same long line at City Hall and decided to leave early before casting his ballot for Donald Trump.
The Greater New Haven NAACP will be providing free rides to city residents who need help getting to the polls, in an effort to promote voting in the Elm City.
From the summit of East Rock, foreigners from, say, Massachusetts can get a view of much of our new country.
Here at the Independent it is not our policy to publish articles written in the future. This is because, as far as we can tell, the future hasn’t happened yet. But we make an exception here, because we believe readers eventually will want to know how our little city became its own country.
“Hello, is Rigoberto available? I’m Miriam, a volunteer with the Harris-Walz campaign working to support Democrats up and down the ticket in Nevada.”
Friday night, with her two rescue dogs Rufus and Daisy occasionally frolicking at her feet, Miriam Gohara repeated that introductory conversational gambit into her computer about 24 more times — as part of a local effort to urge swing-state Latinos to vote blue, just days before the election.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and GOP challenger Matt Corey field reporters' questions after their Wednesday night debate at WTNH.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris did not travel to New Haven for a head-to-head campaign debate.
I think.
But it sounded like it when two other politicians held a campaign debate televised live at WTNH’s Elm Street headquarters: two-term incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and Republican challenger Matt Corey.
The New Haven Democratic Town Committee has drafted a statement in support of Puerto Rico, after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called the island “a floating island of garbage” during his set at Donald Trump’s New York rally on Sunday. Read the statement in full below:
Anthony Acri knows what it’s like to rebuild a life after a setback. He wants voters to send him to Hartford to put that experience to work for other people seeking to rebuild theirs.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and Honda Smith with firefighters from Engine 15 who work with kids at The Shack ...
... as artist David Coardes stands before mural of Alder Smith painted by Imani Roberts.
In the midst of a spirited game of Bingo among a group of senior citizens at The Shack, there was an interruption. It was U.S. Senator Chris Murphy stopping by — to get an up-close look at what makes the West Hills community center work so well.
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Shahd Omar: "I have family who's affected, friends who are quite literally watching their lineages wiped away."
A 23-year-old University of New Haven student with Palestinian roots is mounting a last-minute write-in campaign for Congress to protest the Democratic Party’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
Cherene Cotter: "To have a president come in and deport immigrants… I can’t do that.”
U.S. Sen Blumenthal (right) addresses Saturday's crowd.
With a closing pitch centering abortion access and worker power, local and state elected officials gathered on Dixwell Avenue to rally for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot — especially Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential contest with former President Donald Trump.
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U.S. Sen. Murphy (right): Harris's campaign represents broad "defense of democracy."
Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney aren’t the most natural of political allies.
But, when faced with the prospect of another Trump presidency, “there’s a lot of unusual partners being joined together today in defense of democracy. That is the actual stakes today.”
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Leslie Blatteau and Elizabeth Baldetti work the phones for "pro-worker, pro-working-family candidates like Vice President Kamala Harris, former AFT member Tim Walz, and Senator Bob Casey."
Seven New Haven teachers gathered after school to make phone calls — not to students’ parents, but to registered voters in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania, to encourage them to each make voting plans, and to boost Democratic candidates for president, vice president, and senate.
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Dozens wait to cast their ballots, at around 10 a.m.
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Kenneth Barnes: "I just want the world to be a better place."
Dozens of New Haveners lined up on the second floor of City Hall Monday morning to cast the city’s first early ballots in this year’s long-coming presidential election.
State Rep. Pat Dillon at WNHH FM: "It's great if you bought DoorDash stock five years ago, not if you had maybe 10 people on your staff, serving people, and now you're down to two."
Pat Dillon started visiting voters on her 22nd round of seeking election to a state legislative seat when she learned something new: the Amity Walgreens is closing.
The voters who broke the news considered it a big deal. Dillon said she does, too, and intends to incorporate it into her work if elected on Nov. 5 to represent New Haven’s west-side 92nd General Assembly District for a 21st two-year term.
