WASHINGTON.- Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut was hospitalized after suffering a stroke on Saturday, his office announced on Sunday, November 1. The 53-year-old senator is awake and alert, responding well to treatment, and his team says doctors are optimistic he will make a full recovery.
According to a statement from his chief of staff, Allison Herwitt, Murphy began experiencing numbness in his arm on Saturday afternoon while attending his son's hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors discovered he had experienced a stroke. He was then transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for further monitoring.
What his office said
"The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery," Herwitt said in the statement, adding that Murphy is "responding well to treatment."
The announcement came two days before Tuesday's midterm elections, in which all 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats are on the ballot. Murphy himself is not on the ballot in this November's elections, and his campaign activities have been paused as he recovers.
A Senate seat that is not at stake on Tuesday
Murphy, a Democrat first elected to the Senate in 2012, has become one of his party's most prominent voices on gun control and foreign policy. His hospitalization adds an unexpected personal note to the final weekend of a midterm campaign already dominated by early voting — more than 52 million Americans had already cast ballots before Election Day, a record for a midterm — and by tight Senate races in states including Michigan, Alaska, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.
For now, his office has given no timetable for his discharge. The statement is the fullest official account so far.
Fuentes: Reuters, 1 de noviembre de 2026; CNN, 1 de noviembre de 2026; USA Today, 1 de noviembre de 2026.