After losing the Democratic primary in Connecticut, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, announced he will continue his bid to keep his seat by running as an independent.
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GWEN IFILL:
Normally on the day after a primary election, one campaign continues, the other folds its tent. But as we're seeing today, that's not the case in Connecticut.
Ned Lamont, fresh off his come-from-behind defeat of three-term incumbent Senator Joseph Lieberman last night, was the most popular guy in the room today.
NED LAMONT (D), Candidate for U.S. Senate: We're going to go forward, and I think we can change Washington, D.C., challenge the Bush administration, and put forward a strong, constructive alternative agenda of what he's doing to this country.
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GWEN IFILL:
Connecticut Democrats turned out in record numbers yesterday, casting 52 percent of their votes for Lamont, 48 percent for Lieberman. But the race is far from over: Lieberman, who only six years ago was his party's vice presidential nominee, submitted 18,000 signatures today to file for an independent run in November.
SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D), Connecticut: I am in this race to the end. For me, it is a cause, and it is a cause not to let this Democratic Party that I joined with the inspiration of President Kennedy in 1960 to be taken over by people who are so far from the mainstream of American life that I fear we will not elect Democrats in the numbers that we should in the future.
