Dem Senator Breaks Femur At UConn Basketball Victory Parade After Person Taking Video Falls On Him

Sen. Richard Blumenthal( D-CT ) broke his femur in an accident at the UConn men’s’s basketball victory parade, and he will have surgery on Sunday.

Blumenthal, 77, was in attendance to celebrate the Huskies’ national championship Saturday morning when a person taking a video of him during the procession stumbled and fell on top of the senator, according to News 12 Connecticut. The third-term Democrat was reportedly in “good spirits” when he talked to the news outlet over the phone Saturday night.

After the Huskies defeated San Diego State in the NCAA national championship game earlier Monday to claim the school’s’s second tournament, about 45, 000 spectators showed up to celebrate with the UConn mens sports team. Governor of Connecticut Lt. Governor and Ned Lamont Susan Bysiewicz, who was also present for the festival, spoke to the onlookers who had come to observe.

The Democratic senator is leading bipartisan efforts to crack down on TikTok, the social media app with ties to communist China. In February, Blumenthal joined Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) in exhorting Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to force the divestment of TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.

According to Blumenthal and Moran, TikTok falls under the federal security mission of CFIUS because it gathers the private data of tens of millions of American users and is becoming more and more important to society.

After 20 years as Connecticut’s’s attorney general, Blumenthal was elected to the Senate in 2010.

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