{"id":1912021,"date":"2023-04-09T02:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-breaks-femur-at-uconn-basketball-victory-parade-after-person-taking-video-falls-on-him\/"},"modified":"2023-04-09T02:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:46:03","slug":"dem-senator-breaks-femur-at-uconn-basketball-victory-parade-after-person-taking-video-falls-on-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-breaks-femur-at-uconn-basketball-victory-parade-after-person-taking-video-falls-on-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Senator Breaks Femur At UConn Basketball Victory Parade After Person Taking Video Falls On Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-senator-breaks-femur-at-uconn-basketball-victory-parade-after-person-taking-video-falls-on-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1912021&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/richard-blumenthal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Blumenthal<\/a>( D-CT ) broke his femur in an accident at the UConn men&#8217;s&#8217;s basketball victory parade, and he will have surgery on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blumenthal, 77, was in attendance to celebrate the Huskies\u2019 national championship Saturday morning when a person taking a video of him during the procession stumbled and fell on top of the senator, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/sen-blumenthal-fractures-femur-at-uconn-parade-will-undergo-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to News 12 Connecticut. The third-term Democrat was reportedly in \u201cgood spirits\u201d when he talked to the news outlet over the phone Saturday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Huskies defeated San Diego State in the NCAA national championship game earlier Monday to claim the school&#8217;s&#8217;s second tournament, about 45, 000 spectators showed up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/sports\/dog-house\/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-saturdays-uconn-parade\/3009958\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrate<\/a> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Democratic senator is leading bipartisan efforts to crack down on TikTok, the social media app with ties to communist China. In February, Blumenthal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-and-democrat-senators-join-forces-in-call-for-tiktok-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">joined<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) in exhorting Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to force the divestment of TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After 20 years as Connecticut&#8217;s&#8217;s attorney general, Blumenthal was elected to the Senate in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1680795232291000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2P5VXRE91chuqYyZnEBGLw\">TO GET THE DAILYWIRE + APP, CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) will undergo surgery on Sunday after fracturing his femur in an accident at the UConn men\u2019s basketball victory parade. Blumenthal, 77, was in attendance to celebrate the Huskies\u2019 national championship Saturday morning when a person taking a video of him during the procession stumbled and fell on top of the senator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1912022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7142,6449,6244,3836,23893,10056,3892,4012,19604,7621,4440],"class_list":["post-1912021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-basketball","tag-breaks","tag-dem","tag-falls","tag-femur","tag-parade","tag-person","tag-senator","tag-uconn","tag-victory","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}