The battle of Greenwich was called minutes after the polls closed Tuesday. Richard Blumenthal prevailed.
The Associated Press declared Democrat Blumenthal the winner in the contest for one of Connecticut’s two U.S. Senate seats. He ran against fellow Greenwich resident Leora Levy, the Republican candidate.
Blumenthal will now begin his third six-year term in the U.S. Senate.
Levy ran the most openly pro-Donald Trump campaign in the state this year, publicly holding a fundraiser with the former president at his Florida residence.
She also alleged at a campaign debate that Gov. Ned Lamont had spent “$1.1 billion” in pandemic relief money on “critical race theory” programs in the schools. Her campaign never followed up with specifics about which pots of money were tapped and where they were allegedly spent.