Lamont: Row A Democrats Are “Battle-tested.” At Losing Primaries.

The endorsed Democrats for statewide office (except Kevin Lembo) appeared in front of Bear’s in Hartford Wednesday afternoon. Their leader, Democratic self-funder Ned Lamont declared the team “battle-tested.” He is right, but they are not winners. Four of the five lost their last bid for public office at the hands of fellow Democrats. Lamont, the endorsed candidate for governor, took a drubbing from Dannel P. Malloy in the 2010 Democratic primary for governor. Lieutenant governor candidate Susan Bysiewicz lost in a 2012 primary landslide to Christopher Murphy in their whisper-filled race for the U.S. Senate. Bysiewicz has abandoned three campaigns for governor in the last 12 years.

Wait, there’s more. Attorney general hopeful William Tong, managed to lose what was considered an easy bid for the Democratic nomination for mayor of Stamford in 2015. Three years before that Tong abandoned his bid against Murphy in the Senate race before the Democratic convention convened. Shawn Wooden, the endorsed candidate for state treasurer, won the 2014 party endorsement for the state senate in the Hartford-Bloomfield district held by Eric Coleman, who went on to administer a decisive defeat on Wooden in the primary that followed.

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