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Colorado’s Sen. Ken Salazar has made his decision. Despite Connecticut Democrats choosing Ned Lamont as their Senate candidate, he will support Joe Leiberman in his independent party bid for the U.S. Senate.
“I want to see Joe Lieberman back in the Senate because he is one of those senators in the center, one of the moderate Democrats and Republicans who get things done,” Salazar said Wednesday in Pueblo. “I gave him my word that I would support him and I will.”
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Who else is backing Lieberman? Among Democratic senators, only Sens. Ben Nelson (D-NE), Tom Carper (D-Delaware) andMark Pryor (D-Arkansas) .
National Democrats who have gone on record to support the will of Connecticut Democratic Party voters in the 2006 Senate campaign.
Bill Clinton, Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russ Feingold, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Tom Vilsack, Chris Dodd and Wes Clark.