Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror
Mark Pazniokas
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On a day when Kamala Harris was to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, positioning a Black and South Asian woman to break the highest glass ceiling in American politics, others wondered how high is the ceiling for Pete Buttigieg, a gay man who has become one of the party’s ablest communicators.
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At the Democratic National Convention, Gov. Tim Walz had an enthusiastic rooting section in the ǻ delegation from U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, a classmate from the watershed election of 2006, and Gov. Ned Lamont, who was elected governor in ǻ in 2018, the same year as Walz in Minnesota.
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CT politicians at DNC are thinking about more than this election. Their eyes are on '26, '30 and '32The soft campaigns for governor of ǻ in 2026, or perhaps 2030, as well as positioning for potential presidential runs in 2032, are an ever-present subtext of a Democratic National Convention dedicated to the immediate goal of electing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in 2024.
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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.
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Carville, who helped Bill Clinton win the presidency, told ǻ Democrats: “If you’re a Democrat, let me bring some news to you: You are in a coalition. Everyone in here is in a coalition. If you think you’re in a coalition and you’re totally happy, I got news for you: You’re not in a coalition.”
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Avelo Airlines also offers nonstop flights to 26 destinations from Tweed Airport in New Haven.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is going to be a "great nominee for our party, an extraordinary president,” Gov. Ned Lamont said. “I was proud to endorse her.”
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy praised President Joe Biden’s record as extraordinary and his exit from the race as a selfless act, then pivoted to the road ahead in unifying the Democratic Party behind a new nominee, presumably Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Some key Democrats, including Gov. Ned Lamont, did not immediately endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.
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ǻ is one of the northeastern states where the Trump era has been problematic for down-ballot Republicans, but delegates and guests from Biden states insisted intra-party differences disappeared Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania.