ICYMI: Jahana Hayes Went to the DNC While Her Constituents Back Home Faced Disaster

August 29, 2024

In case you missed it…Jahana Hayes left her constituents fighting deadly floods while she went to party it up at the Democrat National Convention.

Read more here.

Vulnerable Democrat Went to the DNC While Her Constituents Back Home Faced Disaster
Townhall
August 28, 2024

While plenty of vulnerable Democratic incumbents stayed far away from last week’s DNC, there were those who did show up. Such appearances certainly went noticed by Republicans, especially when it comes to Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District.

Hayes left Connecticut on a Sunday and was all too happy to post about various parts of her arrival, including when she arrived at airport. That same day, however, the CT Emergency Management & Homeland Security X account warned of “Flash flood warnings.” Hayes still posted approximately 20 minutes later how excited she was for the CT delegation to be “checking in” at the DNC.

Two women died as a result of the flash floods, with the police identifying the victims on Monday, who were both from Oxford, Connecticut.

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Hayes also posted a video from her official account last Wednesday night speaking to how she had spoken with federal officials to get FEMA assistance for her district. She did so while still in Chicago for the DNC.

The congresswoman also claimed in such a video that she could not get a flight home. However, flightstats.com showed that there were several flights between Chicago O’Hare and Hartford on Monday, August 19th, on Tuesday, August 20th, and on Wednesday, August 21st.

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On Thursday, Hayes once more posted about the floods, in what appeared to be some sort of self-congratulations from the congresswoman.

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In contrast, Hayes’ Republican challenger, George Logan, was out in the community surveying the damage and speaking to residents who had been affected by the flooding while the congresswoman was at the DNC.

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Tellingly, a local outlet, the Republican American, did a poll recently asking residents if the congresswoman should “have returned from the DNC to respond to the floods in her district,” with 67 percent saying “Yes, her presence was needed.” Thirty-three percent answered “No, it would have been performative and CT’s federal legislative delegation already secured emergency funds.”

The National Republican Congressional Committee was all too happy to share the results over X earlier this week.

Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District is one of the closely-watched House races this year with Hayes and Logan once more facing off. Hayes narrowly won in 2022 with 50.4 percent of the vote to Logan’s 49.6 percent in what was mostly regarded as a “Toss-Up” race.