Heavy hearted Trevor Crowe drops out of contest for 36th Senate District Democratic nomination a day after qualifying for public financing.

Trevor Crowe has withdrawn from the race for the Democratic nomination in the 36th Senate District. Crowe was the party’s 2022 nominee for the seat. She fell 89 votes short of defeating Republican incumbent Ryan Fazio.

On Wednesday, Crowe appeared to win close to zero delegates at Democratic town committee selection meetings. The results confirmed the Nick Simmons juggernaut was making a tattered mess of Crowe’s campaign. Still, Thursday brought Crowe’s announcement that she had qualified for taxpayer funding of her campaign. It was not enough to revive the life coach’s fortunes.

On Good Friday, Crowe announced her withdrawal, conceding “there is no path” to victory. She wrote on Instagram, “Two years ago, we came so close to flipping the 36th. I promised my supporters then that we would carry our momentum into 2024 and finish what we started. I was utterly committed to fulfilling my promise, and so it is with a heavy heart and a great deal of disappointment that I am withdrawing from the running for the Democratic endorsement for the 36th District.”

Crowe’s rendezvous with reality leaves Simmons with only one obstacle on his way to the Senate: Ryan Fazio, the Greenwich public school graduate who is mounting his fourth campaign for the job.

Published March 29, 2024.