Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. is “awake and alert,” his team said, after being hospitalized following a stroke on Saturday.
The senator “began experiencing numbness in his arm while attending his son’s hockey game,” Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, said in a statement Sunday.
“He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered that he had suffered a stroke,” she added.
“He has been 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 that he will make a full recovery.”
Murphy, 53, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2006 and the Senate in 2012.
He is not up for re-election this year but has traveled the country on behalf of Democratic candidates running for office.
The senator was scheduled to travel to New Hampshire, where he would campaign alongside Rep. Chris Pappas, the Democratic Senate candidate.
Three other Democratic senators have suffered strokes in recent years.
Senators Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland had strokes in 2022 and have since recovered.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman had a stroke while campaigning for his seat that same year. He said on social media on Sunday that he was “supporting Chris and his family for a full and speedy recovery.”
Several Republican senators, including Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, also offered prayers for Murphy.
President Donald Trump said he was “really surprised” to learn of Murphy’s stroke. “Nobody wants to have that,” he added.
Murphy, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said Thursday at an event in Washington for the Middle East Institute that Trump’s plan to possibly resume war with Iran after the midterms was “insane.”
Earlier this fall, Murphy was one of more than a dozen lawmakers whose offices received letters containing suspicious substances.
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