Democrat Rep. Jahana Hayes projected to defeat GOP challenger for 2nd time in Connecticut

Democratic incumbent Rep. Jahana Hayes is projected to decision her Republican challenger, George Logan, locking successful different word representing Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, according to the Associated Press. 

This is the 2nd clip Hayes has defeated Logan. The Republican unsuccessfully challenged Hayes during the 2022 midterm elections. 

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Rep. Jahana Hayes speaks connected weapon authorities astatine the U.S. Capitol Dec. 14, 2023, successful Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

It has been 18 years since a Republican has represented Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District. 

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Hayes made past arsenic the archetypal Black pistillate and Black Democrat to correspond Connecticut successful Congress. She won her 2018 predetermination and her 2020 and 2022 re-election races by treble digits. 

Jahana Hayes and her GOP challenger George Logan (Getty & AP )

The territory extends on Connecticut's occidental borderline with New York.

Logan served successful the Connecticut authorities Senate and has been an technologist astatine Aquarion Water Company for astir 3 decades. Logan’s woman is simply a nurse, and helium is the begetter of a lad and a daughter. 

During his campaign, Logan said helium would hole ostentation and enactment to bring down state prices by moving toward cleanable vigor solutions. He besides campaigned connected veterans issues, providing resources to archetypal responders and securing the borderline by cracking down connected cause cartels.

Hayes began her vocation arsenic a teacher successful Connecticut. 

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During the 118th Congress, Hayes served connected the House Agriculture Committee and the House Committee connected Education and the Workforce, and she is simply a subordinate of the Congressional Black Caucus and the House Pro-Choice Caucus. 

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