Connecticut Democratic Gov.Ned Lamont is no fan of President Donald Trump, but his progressive primary challenger, state Rep.
Josh Elliott, says he’s too cozy with the president.Lamont defeated Elliott in a high-stakes New England primary Tuesday in a state that not long ago shifted from competitive territory to reliably Democratic.Elliott, D-Hamden, painted Lamont as too "nice" to Trump, saying that being "nice is a problem right now.""Nice doesn’t solve affordability.Nice doesn’t solve fascism or fight back against fascism," Elliott told the Connecticut Mirror.ANTI-TRUMP SENATOR DEFEATED BY FAR-LEFT RIVAL AFTER HEATED GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARYConnecticut Gov.
Ned Lamont speaks at the Connecticut State Capitol on Feb.8, 2023, in Hartford.
(Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)"[Ned] can be nice all day long, but that’s a liability right now."Lamont, meanwhile, told the outlet that "talk is cheap" and said Elliott has little to offer compared with the incumbent’s record during his nearly eight years in office.Lamont’s camp said it wants to see single-payer healthcare and additional resources for early childhood education in the state.Connecticut is increasingly becoming a bedroom community for the New York City, Providence and Boston metropolitan areas.GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE FIGHTING TO FLIP BLUE STATE UNVEILS HEALTHCARE PLAN TO LOWER COSTS, EXPAND ACCESSClockwise from top left are Connecticut Reps.
John Larson, Jahana Hayes, Jim Himes and Joe Courtney.(Tom Williams/Roll Call/Kevin Dietsch/Victor J.
Blue/Bloomberg/Douglas Healey/Getty Images)Lamont faces state Sen.Ryan Fazio, R-Greenwich, in the November general election.While now reliably blue, Connecticut not long ago had several Republicans in Congress and GOP governors with staying power, including John Rowland, who was later imprisoned.Republicans held Connecticut’s governorship for much of the period between the Reagan era and 2010, when the late Gov.
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