Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was hospitalized after suffering a stroke on Saturday afternoon.
Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, said the 53-year-old senator is receiving medical care at Johns Hopkins Hospital and his team expects him to make a full recovery.
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“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke. He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment. 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 a statement to the Washington Examiner.
Murphy is seen as a possible 2028 presidential candidate and has been active on the campaign trail, stumping for Democrats across the country while he is not up for reelection in 2026. He is one of many possible 2028 Democrats using the midterm elections to boost their standing as a party leader.
Murphy has been campaigning for leftist Democratic Senate candidates such as Abdul el Sayed in Michigan, Angie Nixon in Florida, and Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota.
Murphy had been set to knock doors in New Hampshire with Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) on Sunday.
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Several congressional leaders have experienced health problems during this Congress, including Murphy’s upper chamber colleague Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who was hospitalized with pneumonia early this summer.
Murphy also traveled to the Middle East this fall ahead of the midterm elections to meet with leaders in Qatar and Saudi Arabia about the war in Iran. Murphy said he traveled there to assess the damage of the war and speak with the leaders of each country on the impact of the war and efforts to end it.