Connecticut Democrats rallied in support Tuesday after Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
“Connecticut is 100 percent lined up between the team Harris-Walz,” Gov. Ned Lamont, (D) Connecticut, said while wearing a freshly made “Harris-Walz” t-shirt.
Democrats held a press conference on Market Street in Hartford in front of a mural depicting Harris, former Gov. Ella Grasso, former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
The noon press conference came just hours after Harris announced Walz as her pick.
The tandem now faces the Republican ticket of former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance, (R) Ohio.
Rep. Joe Courtney, (D) 2nd, served with Walz in the U.S. House of Representatives and endorsed him over the weekend.
Courtney said Walz can connect with working class voters in swing states.
“He talks their language, …