Connecticut's five U.S. Representatives stood with their Democratic colleagues and four Republicans Tuesday in rebuking President Donald Trump for his news-ct-delegation-responds-trump-racist-tweet-congresswomen-20190715-yxzq3ctn4fgnnbawrrpoqnxnqu-story.html">Twitter attacks against a group of minority congresswomen who have become known as "The Squad."

Now what?

Today we look at what the House resolution, approved on a  240-187 vote, means for an increasingly divided Democratic Party, Trump's base of support, the 2020 presidential election, and race relations in a country undergoing seismic demographic changes.

Here in Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont this week found pol-lamont-three-governors-ecsu-20190716-xubbj2i5z5ecrb3ukd5wwt7t54-story.html">new allies--his counterparts in Massachusetts and Rhode Island--in his bid for highway tolls. He's also dangling a new deal before state lawmakers to draw them back to Hartford this year to vote on a toll plan. Will they bite?

And it looks like more hot days are ahead for Hartford. A new study news-killer-heat-climate-change-report-20190716-ourws3scpzdbtia23nqmdl24v4-story.html">warns the city could see as many as 44 days a year of summer temperatures above 90 degrees by 2050. 

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