Fact check: Is Connecticut really one of the top-growing economies in the US?
Two-term Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont and his reelection campaign are claiming his economic policies have helped Connecticut build one of the fastest-growing economies in the United States. The Connecticut Democratic Party ballyhooed the latest U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report released earlier this month showing the state economy had the seventh-fast growth nationally in second quarter of 2026. But Republican challenger Ryan Fazio, a state senator from Greenwich, is disputing the portrayal by Lamont, his campaign and the Democratic Party of an all-around booming economy for everyday residents. In the first televised gubernatorial debate on Oct. 22, Lamont stated Connecticut had gone "from one of the slowest-growing economies in the country to one of the fastest-growing economies." He also made the same assertion in a CT Insider interview last November just before he kicked off his…