Strap in. Gonna be a long night’s journey into several days. City Councilman Marcus Brown and incumbent State Senator Marilyn Moore are in a virtual dead heat in the city-suburban 22nd District that includes all of Trumbull and portions of Bridgeport and Monroe.
Out of roughly 3,000 votes cast district wide, Moore is up by about 100 votes, according to unofficial machine tabulations. In Trumbull Moore leads the absentee count 754 to Brown’s 688. The absentee count in Monroe is Moore 124, Brown 114.
More than two thousand absentee ballots in the district are still to be counted in Bridgeport. Any absentee ballots that are postmarked primary day will be counted through Thursday via an executive order from Governor Ned Lamont due to last week’s storm that derailed mail carriers.
The big surprise so far is the unknown Brown running even with Moore in the suburbs with walk-in votes. Brown is the beneficiary of running on the presidential line of Joe Biden who’s amassing about 80 percent of the vote in this covid-delayed primary.
State Rep. Charlie Stallworth has defeated Tony Barr on the machines handily, according to unofficial returns.
State Rep. Antonio Felipe and Downtown businessman Kelvin Ayala are also locked in a tight machine-count race with absentee ballots to be counted, according to unofficial returns.
If it comes down to AB’s,Moore is done.Mario has as many AB’s ready to go as needed..
Im actually suprised moore is in the lead with biden winning the district with almost 80% of the vote at leat 30% of his voters went down to vote for Moore
I have repeatedly explained that Trumbull voters are used to splitting tickets as we cannot vote for every candidate on one line for our Council and Boards, because of required minority party representation.
The First line helped Brown, but could not deliver Trumbull or Monroe for the BDTC machine.
All 4 votes in my home were Biden/Moore.
The counting will continue as ABs trickle in the next few days. The big question is: will the machine shenanagins in Bpt be able to steal this election? Or will we get an honest result?
Mario Testa has over 200 AB”s for this election.
AB count for BPT
Moore: 2592
Brown: 2036
Just got outta town hall at 3 am
WOW!! THATS ALOT OF AB! I HAD A FEELONG SHE WAS GOING TO WIN THE AB COUNT SIMPLY BECAUSE ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO USUAL
VOTE ATVTHE POLLS VOTED AB THIS TIME. MY PARENTS VOTED AB FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THEY VOTED BIDEN THEN MOORE. Congrats TO MOORE BIDEN WON 80 PLUS BUT VOTERS SKIPPED BROWN AND WENT DOWN TO ROW B. This IS A UPSET IN MY OPINION THE DISTRICT APPROVES OF MOORE. A WHOLE LOT OF LINE SWITCHING IN THE DISTRICT!
Joe Perkus, if those numbers stay in that range that will show a weaking of Mario Testa power and if Moore is the winner she would be the one who beat Mario Testa.
Two Moore Years!
Not accusing anyone of anything but I was just watching on Channel 8 and they were showing footage of someone voting by AB at the drop box.
I swear they had multiple envelopes in their hand.
Did Lamont or Merrill waive that requirement also???
Hey you do know they could have elderly family members and putting them in the drop box for them…..
Hi Bob,
This is actually a legal move. As long as the ballots were already sealed, people were allowed to drop off ABs for others
So I can put my neighbors ballot in the box? Really. This is the first and serious mistake that they made.
Reminds me of when John McNamara was caught stuffing absentee ballots into a mail box outside the Middle Street Post Office.
Howard, wasn’t it Margaret Morton that literally caught him?
Be patient with me my OIB friends. When I supported Marcus Brown for the CC against Evette Brantley, her message was that Marcus Brown and his running mate were”opportunists.” Evette is a seasoned candidate and works hard when running, but little did I know that she would be so right on the mark with that message, especially as it fits into Marcus Browns’ MO. He managed to get the nomination for the State Senate seat partially because Moore was facing retribution from the “party”, and partially, he hoped, being the opportunist he is, to cash in on Biden’s line. I realize nothing’s final yet, but it appears Brown might be taking his inneffective butt back to my old Council City seat. I voted for Marilyn Moore not because she asked for my vote, but because it was the politically correct way to cast my vote. It’s a challange to upset an incumbent candidate, especially when Marilyn is a mature, professionl, black woman who paid her dues. I say these nice things about her not because she’s a warm and fuzzy person, she’s not even a grateful woman, but she is an elected official who did a decent job and was challenged for the wrong reasons. Let’s wait for the final results.
Lisa….Thank you for your perspective and wisdom. I hope all is well with you.
Thanks Frank, hope all is well with you.