Barnstorming with candidates and TV news hits would typically fill the Election Day to-do list of Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut.
But Mr. Murphy, 53, a sought-after messenger in his party and a prominent critic of President Trump, remained hospitalized on Tuesday, three days after suffering a stroke, according to his office.
“He’s continuing to improve and heartened by the outpouring of well wishes,” Josh Sorbe, a spokesman for Mr. Murphy, said in a text message on Tuesday.
The senator, who was elected to his third six-year term in 2024, had already cast his ballot during early voting in Connecticut, according to Mr. Sorbe, who said Mr. Murphy was encouraging people to vote and make their voices heard “in this defining election.”
Mr. Murphy’s office declined to share details about his condition or recovery from the stroke, which he suffered on Saturday.
While attending his son’s hockey game, Mr. Murphy “started experiencing numbness in his arm,” his chief of staff said in a statement over the weekend. Doctors at a nearby hospital determined that Mr. Murphy was having a stroke, and he was transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for monitoring and treatment.
In an interview on Tuesday, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said that he had yet to speak with Mr. Murphy since the stroke, but that he had been receiving encouraging updates from Mr. Murphy’s staff.
“The prognosis seems to be good,” Mr. Blumenthal said. “He’s responding well to treatment. They’re going to be rightly cautious.”
Mr. Blumenthal added, “He’s expected to make a full recovery.”
The two senators saw each other on Friday night at a spaghetti dinner get-out-the-vote event for Democrats in New London, Conn., in the southeastern part of the state.
Mr. Murphy later returned to Washington and on Sunday had been scheduled to visit New Hampshire to campaign for Representative Chris Pappas, the Democratic nominee for Senate, according to Mr. Blumenthal.
Mr. Blumenthal said he learned of his colleague’s stroke early on Sunday from Mr. Murphy’s staff.
“He’s one of the last people in the world I would expect to have any health issue, but it’s a reminder that everyone needs to be aware and take care,” he said.
Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, a Democrat, has also reached out to Mr. Murphy, according to a spokeswoman, who said the two had yet to speak.
Mr. Trump, who has clashed with Mr. Murphy over the years, said on Sunday that Mr. Murphy’s stroke was unfortunate.
“He’s a pretty young guy,” Mr. Trump said in response to a reporter’s question in Iowa about Mr. Murphy. “Nobody wants to have that.”
Mr. Murphy’s hospitalization follows what appeared to be a grueling few weeks of travel for the senator, who visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar in early October as part of a congressional delegation trip. While in Qatar, he said he was denied access to the biggest U.S. base in the Middle East by the Defense Department.
In mid-October, Mr. Murphy announced plans to campaign for Democrats in Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and North Carolina in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections.
Mr. Murphy is the latest member of the Senate to experience health problems, which have become a source of intense public scrutiny in the narrowly divided chamber that is controlled by Republicans.
In July, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, died unexpectedly from an aortic dissection, a tear in the body’s main artery.
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the former majority leader, missed more than three months on Capitol Hill earlier this year after a fall at his home, an absence that was shrouded in secrecy.
In addition to Mr. Murphy, at least three sitting senators have suffered strokes in recent years: Senator Ben Ray Luján, Democrat of New Mexico; Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland; and Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, who nearly died during the 2022 campaign.
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