Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher pushed back immediately on claims from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) that CBS News was leaning hard toward President Donald Trump.
Murphy claimed during a Friday evening appearance with Maher that when CBS News axed longtime &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; anchor Scott Pelley, it was just further proof that the Trump administration was pushing to implement a &#8220;censorship state&#8221; and take full control of the media.
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Bill Maher repeatedly swats down Democrat senator’s claim that Trump is hijacking 60 Minutes to “tell his story.”
No matter which direction Chris Murphy turned, Maher kept getting in his way.
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&#8220;You’re watching a censorship state,&#8221; Murphy asserted, adding, &#8220;Trump is using regulatory powers to punish people who oppose him.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s a big charge that you just made, that &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; itself and CBS itself is now completely MAGA,&#8221; Maher pushed back. &#8220;I don’t see it that way.&#8221;
Murphy backpedaled slightly, saying, &#8220;It’s not completely MAGA.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, it’s kind of what you said,&#8221; Maher pointed out.
&#8220;But he is clearly intent on installing people who will tell his story and will keep his critics off the air,&#8221; Murphy claimed.
&#8220;But let me ask you this question. I watch &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; every week. I have since I was a kid,&#8221; Maher continued to press, arguing that the media was making a story out of nothing. &#8220;If I didn’t hear all the buzz in the media … would I ever notice that it was any different? I don’t think I would.&#8221;
&#8220;Part of what the allegation is, is that they are killing stories that would be embarrassing for the president,&#8221; Murphy insisted, adding, &#8220;So it’s hard to know what you’re missing in a censorship environment.&#8221;
Maher noted that he was still seeing stories that weren&#8217;t exactly flattering to Trump, suggesting that if the goal was to censor unfavorable stories, the network had thus far not been terribly successful in doing so.
&#8220;I’ve seen ones that are not very favorable to the president,&#8221; he said, repeating, &#8220;I don’t know if I would have noticed anything different if I hadn’t been reading about it &#8230; Companies change hands all the time … ‘Oh my God. 60 Minutes has a new cast!’ So does &#8216;Saturday Night Live.'&#8221;
Over laughter from the audience, Maher added, &#8220;I’m not going to [fret] until I see a smoking gun.&#8221;

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A top Democrat claimed he did not know if there would be an election in 2028 and called for activist organizations to take to “the streets” to “save our democracy” while trying to sell his book.
During a recent book tour stop, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), a potential presidential candidate, said that money should be funneled to leftist activists to ensure that upcoming elections are “fair and free.” Murphy made the dramatic claims during a Q&amp;A with ex-NBC journalist Katie Couric at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan pushing his book &#8220;Crisis of the Common Good.&#8221; 
When asked if he had any national aspirations, Murphy said, “Here’s the honest truth: I don’t know that there’s going to be an election in 2028.” 
Couric interjected, “Don’t say that.” 
“I think there is, but we gotta do the work,” Murphy replied. “And so, I am spending all of my time trying to make sure that democracy still exists, trying to preserve what we have.”
He made the comments on May 26, just weeks after another attempted assassination against President Donald Trump.
At the same time as he warned of a dystopian future without elections, Murphy lambasted conservatives for believing that leftism was an “existential threat to the country&#8221; and called for Democrats to vote to “permanently eliminate [Trump’s] movement from positions of power.”
Murphy added that he had spent much of the money he raised on funding leftist activist organizations. 
“I’ve been spending most all of my money that I raise online in the last year and a half, sending out grants to local citizen-led organizations all over the country that are protesting what Donald Trump is doing and mobilizing citizens against his corruption and thievery,” he said. 
“We shouldn’t be raising money and hoarding it for the next election. We should be raising money and putting it immediately out onto the streets to help save our democracy,” Murphy added. 
Murphy was <a href="https://chrismurphy.com/american-mobilization-project/">referring</a> to his “American Mobilization Project,” which backs leftist organizations that participate in &#8220;on-the-ground organizing” that fight against Republican policies or push leftist voting and immigration initiatives. 
For example, the project has supported the group &#8220;Indivisible,&#8221; which <a href="https://indivisible.org/">describes</a> itself as an organization fighting “against this fascistic clown show of a regime” and calls for defunding ICE and Border Patrol. 
Indivisible <a href="https://indivisible.org/actions/demand-your-representative-reject-detention-center-escalations/">designed</a> a script for activists to call lawmakers and tell them to &#8220;use their power as my elected official to demand dignity for immigrants and reject any expansions to Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda.&#8221;
Multiple groups supported by Murphy&#8217;s project do immigration legal work. This includes the Minneapolis-based Advocates for Human Rights, which provides legal services to “people in immigration detention,” and American Gateways, which gives free legal services at the immigration courthouse in San Antonio, Texas. 
Another group is the Wisconsin-based Raìces Acciòn, which works to train “the next generation of bilingual organizers to build sustained political power up and down the ballot.”
Other groups protest cuts to welfare programs and public education or push young people to participate in political activism.

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The loudest Democratic critics of the “Epstein class” continue to carve out exceptions for Senate candidate Graham Platner, despite new revelations that he exchanged sexually explicit text messages with many women and maintained an active profile on a platform notorious for enabling sexual predators.
Over the weekend, The Daily Wire exclusively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-graham-platner-has-active-profile-on-predators-paradise-messaging-app">reported</a> that Platner created an account on the Kik platform, which the National Center on Sexual Exploitation has described as a “predator’s paradise.” The revelation followed another weekend disclosure that his wife, Amy Gertner, previously flagged messages that her oyster farmer husband exchanged sexually explicit texts with as many as a dozen women.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hostage-video-platners-wife-attempts-damage-control-over-creepy-sex-scandal?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98Hostage+Video%E2%80%99%3A+Platner%E2%80%99s+Wife+Attempts+Damage+Control+Over+Creepy+Sex+Scandal">The one-two punch</a> sent national Democrats — who view Maine as their best shot to flip the U.S. Senate — into defense mode.
“I’ve not followed this story as others have, but Graham Platner is somebody who served our country, he’s served his community; he’s also made mistakes and he’s admitted that,” Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said when asked about Platner’s character. 
“Character also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country. And this race is going to be a contrast between somebody who has put his life on the line for this country, against somebody who is literally empowering the moral hollowing-out of our nation from the White House,” he added.  
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When asked whether Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner passes the “character test,” after CBS confirmed reporting that Platner&#8217;s wife told his campaign about sexually explicit texts he sent to other women, Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) says Platner has lived a life of… <a href="https://t.co/coKBizY1aD">pic.twitter.com/coKBizY1aD</a>
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Murphy’s deflection of Platner’s misconduct follows months of the Connecticut Democrat railing against the &#8220;Epstein class&#8221; as a pretext to oppose the Trump administration.   
“The Epstein class&#8217;s kids won&#8217;t die in this war. Poor families&#8217; kids will. Billionaires won&#8217;t suffer. Middle class families will pay more for everything,&#8221; he said in March. 
In November 2025, a more definitive Murphy accused President Donald Trump of being in “daily panic mode” over the release of the Epstein files, calling it the “biggest scandal in presidential history.” 
“Clearly, Donald Trump was at the center of a child sex ring. That is heartbreaking that the president of the United States was involved in that kind of gross, craven immorality,” <a href="https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1989380599124046297?s=20">he said to The Bulwark’s Sam Stein.</a> 
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.<a href="https://x.com/samstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@samstein</a>: “What is your take on how this is playing out and why he’s acting in an incredibly guilty fashion?”<a href="https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisMurphyCT</a>: “He wouldn’t be acting this way if he wasn’t so deeply worried about what sits in those files…Clearly, Donald Trump was at the center of a child sex… <a href="https://t.co/EuRUKMEh36">pic.twitter.com/EuRUKMEh36</a>
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) <a href="https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1989380599124046297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who teamed up with defeated Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to push for Epstein-related disclosures, doubled down on his support for Platner.
“I am proud of<a href="https://x.com/grahamformaine"> @grahamformaine</a> for having the character to stand up against the war in Iran, against genocide, and against an unfair &amp; lopsided economy,” he posted on social media. “I am proud of him for having a vision for a new deal for our time. Excited to campaign with him June 5!”
Platner’s scandal-ridden campaign, which has already faced intense scrutiny over his Nazi tattoo, his mocking of a wounded American soldier, and derogatory social media posts about women, doesn’t appear to be worrying other progressives down the ballot. 
A smiling Matt Dunlap, the Democrat running in Maine’s red-leaning 2nd congressional district, said Monday that he still backs Platner. 
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GROSS: Maine Democrat Matt Dunlap says he still supports Graham Platner, exposed for his Nazi tattoo, cheating on his wife &amp; using a notorious &#8220;predator&#8217;s paradise&#8221; app.<a href="https://x.com/dunlap4congress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dunlap4congress</a> says he thinks this makes for “a good senator.” <a href="https://t.co/KQ2yM445r7">pic.twitter.com/KQ2yM445r7</a>
— NRCC (@NRCC) <a href="https://x.com/NRCC/status/2061474963110981773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2026</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/public-safety/2026/04/02/dunlap-picks-up-khanna-s-endorsement-in-maine-2nd-cd-race">Khanna endorsed Dunlap</a> in April, calling him a “progressive champion” who supports “holding the Epstein class accountable.”
On CNN, Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) dismissed concerns that Platner is suitable to serve in the upper chamber. 
“Well, he certainly has many good attributes. He has a great background. He comes to this issue with strength, both of personality and determination, as well as history. But, like most everybody, there are stumbles along the way, and there&#8217;s some things that he regrets having done, and I&#8217;m sure the public will hear about them,” <a href="https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2061446597720912089?s=20">Garamendi said.</a> 
A strategic divide appears to be deepening between elected Democratic officials eager to take back power and a left-leaning commentary class focused on the party’s broader brand.
“And I will say, as a Democrat, I find it really problematic when we stand by people who do not pass muster when it comes to some basic judgment and moral values. We stand by them because they&#8217;re on our side. How is that different than Republicans doing the same thing? I find it really problematic,” Democratic activist Lauren Leader-Chivee said. 
Leader-Chivee appeared to predict defeat before the November matchup between Graham Platner and Susan Collins began.
“It was a long shot to begin with, to think that Democrats are going to take out Susan Collins. She&#8217;s been there since 1996. The polls are wrong every single cycle. She [has] extraordinary resilience,” she said. “And now you have this very problematic guy.”
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Democratic activist Lauren Leader-Chivee (<a href="https://x.com/laurenleaderAIT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@laurenleaderAIT</a>) on Graham Platner: &#8220;How are we different than Republicans&#8221; if we stand by him &#8220;just because he’s on our side?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/EGIcb4OExq">pic.twitter.com/EGIcb4OExq</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://x.com/tomselliott/status/2061449971862274317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2026</a></blockquote>

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Epstein-Obsessed Democrats Carve Out Exceptions For Graham Platner

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Leftist and perennial Trump-critic Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy got hammered online after he appeared to cheer for the failure of the U.S. against Iran.
On Monday, following reports that at least 26 vessels from Iran’s &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; successfully bypassed a U.S. blockade, the Connecticut senator offered a succinct, one-word response on social media: “Awesome.”
The backlash was swift and deservedly brutal.
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Year of our Lord 2026: Democrat US Senator openly rooting for Iran to defeat the US in battle. Every Dem on the Hill ought to be hounded today by every reporter to answer for this lunatic. <a href="https://t.co/8ixSVsGFRo">pic.twitter.com/8ixSVsGFRo</a>
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Democratic politicians continue to condemn the U.S. campaign against Iran in the midst of critical talks. Yet, few have come close to the extremes of Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.), who just responded to a report of 26 Iranian vessels evading the U.S. blockade with &quot;awesome&quot;&#8230;
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Democrats are openly cheering for the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. <a href="https://t.co/Mk787lUOpa">pic.twitter.com/Mk787lUOpa</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanSaavedra/status/2046443906120999240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&quot;Go Iran!&quot; exclaimed the United States Senator.
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Senator Chris Murphy….. RESIGN, TRAITOR!! <a href="https://t.co/THSNOFHap0">https://t.co/THSNOFHap0</a>
&mdash; Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/2046575350381998274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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This douche bag should be censored and never allowed on a US military installation ever again. Our troops deserve better than seditious rhetoric from a sitting “representative.”
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/2046455113620029740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Murphy later clarified that his comment was &#8220;sarcasm.&#8221;
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Ok Twitter, I can’t believe I need to clarify this but obviously Trump’s bungled mismanagement of this war is not “awesome”. As I have said a million times here, it’s a disaster and he should end the war immediately. My tweet was something called “sarcasm”. <a href="https://t.co/aL9vSEzZC1">https://t.co/aL9vSEzZC1</a>
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2046590235643896291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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But to further humiliate Murphy, reports later surfaced that the claim of the 26 ships was a fiction:
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“So that was just Iranian propaganda?”
“Yes, absolutely.”<a href="https://twitter.com/TreyYingst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TreyYingst</a> reports there’s no evidence any vessels left Iranian ports or moved through the Strait of Hormuz — undercutting the false narrative about 26 Iranian ships slipping past a U.S. blockade. | <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxandfriends</a> <a href="https://t.co/jnUB9yoSFK">pic.twitter.com/jnUB9yoSFK</a>
&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/2046568720781156395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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For those who have watched Murphy’s trajectory, this wasn&#8217;t an isolated gaffe; it was the culmination of a long-standing pattern of freelance diplomacy and radical rhetoric.
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Back in 2020, Murphy was caught in a &#8220;secret meeting&#8221; in Munich with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif—a meeting first exposed by The Federalist. At the time, Murphy <a href="https://halifax.citynews.ca/2020/02/18/us-lawmaker-defends-meeting-with-iran-fm-in-munich/">defended</a> his back-channeling, claiming it was &#8220;dangerous not to talk to one’s enemies.&#8221; Critics, however, were quick to point out the staggering hypocrisy: Murphy had spent years shrieking about &#8220;collusion&#8221; regarding Trump officials’ contacts with foreign leaders, yet saw no issue with undermining sitting U.S. policy while meeting with a regime responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans.
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As the U.S. recently ramped up military pressure to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, Murphy’s rhetoric shifted from &#8220;diplomat&#8221; to &#8220;defeatist.&#8221; He has repeatedly characterized U.S. actions as &#8220;dangerously illegal,&#8221; &#8220;unnecessary,&#8221; and a &#8220;<a href="https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-statement-on-trumps-illegal-war-with-iran">mistake of staggering scale</a>.&#8221; He has gone so far as to accuse the administration of &#8220;terrorizing innocent Iranians&#8221; and <a href="https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-on-substack-pay-attention-when-your-president-promises-to-commit-war-crimes">committing “war crimes</a>,&#8221; all while bizarrely suggesting that the 25th Amendment be used against a president he describes as &#8220;unglued&#8221; and a &#8220;would-be dictator.&#8221;
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Murphy’s obsession with &#8220;collectivism&#8221; and his disdain for American &#8220;individualism&#8221; often mirror the talking points of the very radicals he empowers. While he bloviates about the &#8220;trillions wasted&#8221; in overseas conflicts, he remains curiously silent on the billions in oil revenue his preferred policies allow to flow back into Tehran’s coffers.
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To Murphy, a U.S. blockade being outmaneuvered by a rogue regime isn&#8217;t a security failure—it’s &#8220;awesome.&#8221;
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It is a chilling reminder that for some in the Senate, the goal isn&#8217;t American victory; it’s the managed decline of the West in favor of the &#8220;warmth&#8221; of globalist submission.
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Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) wasted no time on Sunday in blaming the horrific Brown University shooting — which had occurred less than 24 hours earlier — on President Donald Trump.
Murphy joined CNN anchor Dana Bash on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where he claimed that the uptick in violence was the direct result of a president &#8220;engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.&#8221;
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Chris Murphy goes after Trump for Brown University shoot*ng:
“Donald Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country.&#8221;
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&#8220;It&#8217;s not shocking, because over the last year, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country,&#8221; Murphy began, clearly insinuating that the Trump administration was encouraging violence.
&#8220;He&#8217;s restoring gun rights to felons and to people who have lost their ability to buy guns, he eliminated the White House Office of Gun Violence Protection, and he has stopped funding mental health grants and community anti-gun violence grants that Republicans and Democrats supported in that 2022 bill,&#8221; Murphy continued.
&#8220;He has been engaged in a pretty deliberate campaign to try to make violence more likely, and I think you&#8217;re unfortunately going to see the results of that on the streets of America,&#8221; Murphy said.
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Bash pressed him on his assertion, saying, &#8220;That&#8217;s a pretty big statement, he&#8217;s in a campaign to make violence more likely?&#8221;
&#8220;Of course! I mean, he&#8217;s knowingly restoring gun rights to dangerous people. He is cutting off grants that have bipartisan support to try to interrupt violence in our cities, or to try to get necessary mental health resources to families and children in need,&#8221; Murphy claimed. &#8220;The evidence tells you that when you stop funding mental health, when you stop funding community anti-gun violence programs, when you give gun rights back to dangerous people, you are going to have increase in violence. That is knowable and that is foreseeable.&#8221;
Murphy was referencing a proposed rule — published by the Justice Department in July — that would restore Second Amendment rights only after evaluating whether or not someone actually poses a threat.
&#8220;For too long, countless Americans with criminal histories have been permanently disenfranchised from exercising the right to keep and bear arms—a right every bit as constitutionally enshrined as the right to vote, the right to free speech, and the right to free exercise of religion—irrespective of whether they actually pose a threat,&#8221; said Attorney General Pamela Bondi at the time. &#8220;No longer.&#8221;

Senate Dem Wastes No Time, Blames Brown Shooting On Donald Trump

Chris Murphy Wastes No Time, Blames Brown Shooting On Donald Trump

During a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper, Democrat Senator Chris Murphy pivoted when asked about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo.
“I do want to ask you about the Maine Senate race, because earlier this month, you called Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner ‘impressive,’ but since then, obviously a lot about him has come out, including the fact that he had a Totenkopf, which is a skull head — it’s the Nazi emblem for the SS — he had one of those tattooed on his chest,” Tapper stated. “He’s denied that he knew what the tattoo meant until recently, but CNN did find several times he discussed the Totenkopf emblem in recent years and months. Do you still think Platner is impressive?”
Murphy acknowledged the reporting from CNN, then quickly pivoted to discussing Platner’s military service and calling him “a human being who made mistakes.”
“But I&#8217;ve also listened to him talk about, I mean, the difficult time that he went through in his life. And frankly, it&#8217;s not unfamiliar to a lot of soldiers who came back from service and had a very difficult time readjusting. So he sounds like a human being to me, a human being who made mistakes, recognizes them, and is very open about it,” Murphy said.
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Murphy wasn’t so sanguine about alleged Nazi symbolism just a few months ago when Elon Musk was accused of performing a “Nazi salute” at the presidential inauguration.
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After the gesture went viral, multiple high-profile individuals came to Musk’s defense, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Even the left-wing Anti-Defamation League released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-defends-musk-after-aoc-leftist-media-smear-him-as-a-nazi">statement</a> in defense of Musk, saying the Tesla founder &#8220;made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.&#8221;
But Murphy was apparently deeply concerned, pressing Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) about the incident in a January <a href="https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-questions-elise-stefanik-on-elon-musks-nazi-salutes">Senate hearing.</a>
“I think antisemitism work is best when we call out what is happening on both sides of the aisle,&#8221; Murphy asked. &#8220;What do you think of Elon Musk, perhaps the president&#8217;s most visible advisor, doing two ‘Heil Hitler’ salutes last night at the President’s televised rally?”
“No, Elon Musk did not do those salutes … that is simply not the case, and to say so is – the American people are smart. They see through it. They support Elon Musk,” Stefanik replied.
Murphy pressed further still, citing several antisemitic X personalities who claimed what Musk did was a sign.

Graham Platner Maine

Chris Murphy Dodged Question About Graham Platner’s Nazi Tattoo. He Was Mad About Elon’s ‘Nazi Salute.’

Democratic Party

Elon Musk

Numerous Democrats decried <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-israel-strikes-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Iran%E2%80%99s+Nuclear+Facility+Destroyed%2C+Israel+Continues+Strikes">Israel&#8217;s Thursday night attack on Iran</a> as the American ally destroyed one of the radical Islamic regime&#8217;s nuclear facilities and killed some of its top military leaders.
After Israel conducted airstrikes in Iran, many leftists claimed Israel was taking &#8220;immoral&#8221; actions and pursuing &#8220;dangerous escalation&#8221; with the Iranian regime, a state sponsor of terrorism that funds violent groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, which seek Israel&#8217;s destruction.
&#8220;The Israeli government bombing Iran is a dangerous escalation that could lead to regional war,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepRashida/status/1933342047534264678">said</a> Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a member of the &#8220;Squad.&#8221; &#8220;War Criminal Netanyahu will do anything to maintain his grip on power. We cannot let him drag our country into a war with Iran. Our government must stop funding and supporting this rogue genocidal regime.&#8221;
Tlaib&#8217;s fellow &#8220;Squad&#8221; member, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), <a href="https://x.com/IlhanMN/status/1933365089316323803">added</a>, &#8220;Regardless of what Trump thinks, Israel knows America will do whatever they want and feels confident about their ability to get into war and have the American government back them up. Israel also knows they can always rely on getting America to protect and serve its needs. Everyone in America should prepare themselves to either see their tax dollars being spent on weapon supplies to Israel or be dragged into war with Iran if this escalates.&#8221;
Israel targeted &#8220;hideouts of senior operatives in the Iranian military leadership,&#8221; according to the Israel Defense Forces. Among the Iranian military leaders taken out by Israel were Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Iranian Regime, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri; Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami; and Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya (Emergency Command), Gholam Al-Rashid, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-israel-strikes-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Iran%E2%80%99s+Nuclear+Facility+Destroyed%2C+Israel+Continues+Strikes">reported</a>. Throughout the night, more than 200 Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck more than 100 targets across Iran.
Ben Rhodes, a political commentator and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under President Barack Obama, blasted Israel and President Donald Trump after the attack was launched.
&#8220;This war will above all harm innocent people for no good reason. We live in truly cruel, perilous and stupid times,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/brhodes/status/1933337754261430720">wrote</a> on X.
Rhodes, who was so critical of Israel while working in the White House that he was <a href="https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1933327150893183147">reportedly</a> nicknamed &#8220;Hamas,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/brhodes/status/1933328827284865262">called</a> Israel&#8217;s action &#8220;pointless, dangerous, and immoral.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump was either totally humiliated by Bibi or has been lying about his commitment to ending wars,&#8221; he added.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a <a href="https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1933345572443783580">statement</a> condemning Israel for risking &#8220;a regional war that will likely be catastrophic for America.&#8221;
&#8220;Iran would not be this close to possessing a nuclear weapon if Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu had not forced America out of the nuclear agreement with Iran that had brought Europe, Russia, and China together behind the United States to successfully contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions,&#8221; Murphy added, referring to the previous Iran nuclear agreements pushed by Obama and former President Joe Biden that failed to prevent the Ayatollah from pushing forward with its nuclear and missile programs, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/william-burns-cia-director-iran-nuclear-program-face-the-nation-interview/">according</a> to U.S. intelligence.
Predictions of a large-scale war that could force the United States into the conflict are overblown, according to Brett McGurk, the former National Security Council Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa under President Joe Biden. McGurk <a href="https://x.com/RameshPonnuru/status/1933492678689264123">told</a> CNN that Iran&#8217;s capability of responding to Israel&#8217;s attack is severely hampered since the leaders of terror groups that would coordinate Iran&#8217;s response &#8220;are all dead.&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-tells-iran-to-make-a-deal-before-there-is-nothing-left?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Warns+Iran+To+Make+A+Deal+Before+%E2%80%98There+Is+Nothing+Left%E2%80%99">urged</a> Iran on Friday to reach a new deal with the United States, saying, “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal.’ They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there. Now they have, perhaps, a second chance.”

Ilhan Omar, Chris Murphy, Rashida Tlaib

Democrat Lawmakers, Leftists Seethe As Israel Wipes Out Iranian Nuclear Facility, Military Leaders

Ilhan Omar

Israel

Rashida Tlaib

The Squad

Americans want Democrats to &#8220;fight&#8221; President Donald Trump, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) contended on Sunday, despite polling that painted a dismal picture for his party.
On NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Murphy <a href="https://x.com/westernlensman/status/1901281862594580654?s=46&amp;t=z5YS3Gq8Y9sGYCPA7C8RlQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alluded</a> to a contentious few days for Senate Democrats in the last week. During that time, enough members of the party chose <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-officially-sends-funding-bill-to-trumps-desk-after-dems-cave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not to support</a> blocking a GOP-backed stopgap bill, allowing it to pass and averting a partial government shutdown.
&#8220;I think Americans want the Democratic Party to stand up and fight and to take risks. Listen, I understand that had we gone into a shutdown, even for a handful of days, it would have been difficult,&#8221; Murphy said.
&#8220;But it would have sent a message that the Democratic Party is not going to be bullied by Donald Trump,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We are not going to let them write spending bills unilaterally that cut programs for people we care about, that give the president new and extraordinary power.&#8221;
Murphy was responding to moderator Kristen Welker, who pressed the senator for a response to a new NBC survey. Conducted before the Senate showdown over the continuing resolution, the national poll <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yuge-poll-numbers-for-trump-president-cracks-right-direction-threshold-not-seen-since-2004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> just 27% of respondents had a positive view of the Democrats.
The same survey revealed that Trump and his second-term administration reached a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yuge-poll-numbers-for-trump-president-cracks-right-direction-threshold-not-seen-since-2004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">significant milestone</a>, with 44% of Americans saying they believe the United States is &#8220;headed in the right direction&#8221; — the highest level since early 2004 when George W. Bush was president.
Despite these findings, Murphy argued that bipartisanship is not a viable option for his party. Echoing a common refrain among Democrats, he warned that representative democracy in the United States is at risk with Trump in office.
&#8220;I think Democrats in this country, but I think the broad middle of the public as well, want to see our party fighting in exceptional ways,&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;That is the conversation that has to happen inside of the Democratic Party, inside our caucus. And if we don&#8217;t get that right, if we continue to work with Republicans, if we continue to hand Donald Trump more power, we are going to lose our democracy.&#8221;

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)

Confronted With Party’s Cratering Popularity, Dem Insists Americans Crave Anti-Trump ‘Fight’

Congress

Spending Bill

U.S.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) admitted on Tuesday that the Democratic Party&#8217;s media strategy was outdated at best — and that Republicans, according to an assessment laid out by Fox News host Jesse Watters, had their number.
Watters raised the issue during a recent broadcast of &#8220;The Five&#8221; on Fox News, where he described in detail how information got to the people in the new conservative media ecosystem.
WATCH:
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Watters: We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign against the left…What you&#39;re seeing on the right is asymmetrical… Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it.. and by the time it reaches everybody, millions… <a href="https://t.co/EccQutLW0J">pic.twitter.com/EccQutLW0J</a>
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&#8220;We are waging a 21st-century information warfare campaign against the Left and they are using tactics from the 1990s,&#8221; Watters said. &#8220;They are holding tiny press conferences, tiny little rallies. They’re screaming into the ether on MSNBC. This is what you call top-down command and control. You get your talking points from a newspaper and you put it on the broadcast network and then it disappears.&#8221;
He went on to describe the different strategies currently being implemented on the Right — strategies developed in part because the Left has long had a stranglehold on legacy media outlets in the United States.
&#8220;What you’re seeing on the Right is asymmetrical. It’s like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it. And by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it. It’s free money. And we’re actually talking about expressing information. They are suppressing information,&#8221; Watters continued.
Murphy responded to the Fox News host in an X post, conceding that his assessment was correct and arguing that Democrats needed to find a way to break out of their old habits if they wanted to win.
&#8220;This is true. And until the left builds an infrastructure to confront this reality — and stops acting like political communication is still just buying millions of TV and digital ads every two years — we are cooked,&#8221; he said.
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This is true. And until the left builds an infrastructure to confront this reality &#8211; and stops acting like political communication is still just buying millions of TV and digital ads every two years &#8211; we are cooked. <a href="https://t.co/U0ZMhFULTl">https://t.co/U0ZMhFULTl</a>
&mdash; Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1891833231739068870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senators Meet For Their Policy Luncheons On Capitol Hill

Dem Senator Admits Fox News Host Has His Party’s Strategy Nailed: ‘We Are Cooked’

Dem. Senator Admits Fox News Host Has His Party's Strategy Nailed: 'We Are Cooked'

Fox News

Jesse Watters

Leading <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> Republicans have been delivering fiery rebukes as their Democrat colleagues slowed down the process of confirming President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s Cabinet nominees for his nascent second term in the White House.
After Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) objected to a so-called <a href="https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1881841277626671515" target="_blank" rel="noopener">time agreement</a> that would have allowed a final vote on <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1881476717325558114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Ratcliffe</a>&#8216;s nomination to become CIA director on Tuesday, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) voiced his dismay in <a href="https://www.c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-senate/430291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> on the Senate floor while stressing that the upper chamber would press ahead with Trump&#8217;s picks.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve now wasted a whole day where we could have been acting on that nomination,&#8221; Thune said, adding that the question before the Senate was &#8220;do we want a vote on these folks on Tuesday or vote on them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday? Because that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do. This can be easy or this can be hard.&#8221;
Thune highlighted that Ratcliffe, a former House Republican from Texas who served as director of national intelligence at the end of Trump&#8217;s first term, sailed through the Senate Intelligence Committee by a 14-3 vote with bipartisan support.
&#8220;This is about America&#8217;s national security interests. And we&#8217;re stalling,&#8221; Thune continued. &#8220;So that&#8217;s not going to happen. We&#8217;re going to file cloture on them. You can force us to stay here, staying around here. And we can vote on these things Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But we&#8217;re going to vote on them.&#8221;
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As I’ve repeatedly said, Senate Republicans are ready to work as long as needed to confirm President Trump’s nominees. Nights. Weekends. Recesses. <a href="https://t.co/yLl2hIo0pc">pic.twitter.com/yLl2hIo0pc</a>
&mdash; Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaderJohnThune/status/1881880780319944809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Thune also took procedural steps that will pave the way to final confirmation votes in the coming days for Ratcliffe&#8217;s nomination, as well as South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem&#8217;s nomination to become Homeland Security secretary and Pete Hegseth&#8217;s nomination to become Defense secretary — both of whom have advanced out of committee, too.
With a post to X featuring a video of his remarks, Thune suggested there could even be recess appointments. Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-how-recess-appointments-work-and-how-they-could-help-trump-fill-his-cabinet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocated</a> for installing his own nominees in such a manner, during a recess, if the Senate fails to confirm them in a &#8220;timely manner.&#8221;
In rejecting the Senate Republicans&#8217; bid to proceed more swiftly with a confirmation vote on Ratcliffe&#8217;s nomination, Murphy <a href="https://www.c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-senate/430291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he wanted a &#8220;full&#8221; debate that lasted a couple more days while insisting that some members had &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; that the CIA pick would not be able to &#8220;distance himself from the political interests of President Trump.&#8221;
But Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) wasn&#8217;t buying it. He rejected Murphy&#8217;s claim about Democrats needing more time to discuss Ratcliffe&#8217;s nomination and surmised that &#8220;what this is really about is trying to drag out all of these nominations to play procedural games, as we&#8217;re about to, with Pete Hegseth&#8217;s nomination to try to deny President Trump his Cabinet in a prompt and timely fashion.&#8221;
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My message to obstructionist Democrats:
Don’t make plans this weekend. We’re going to get President Trump’s nominees confirmed the easy collegial way, or apparently the hard way. <a href="https://t.co/DJrA09bTqk">pic.twitter.com/DJrA09bTqk</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1881851088980279482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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So far, the GOP-led Senate has approved just one of Trump&#8217;s Cabinet nominees: now-former senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, who on Tuesday was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marco-rubio-sworn-in-says-war-in-ukraine-must-end" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sworn in</a> to office as U.S. Secretary of State after being confirmed by a unanimous vote on Monday.
While some delays may be <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/confirmation-delays-stack-up-trump-nominees-paperwork-lags-federal-offices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">due to paperwork</a>, the Senate Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-democrats-put-arbitrary-hold-on-pam-bondi-nomination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that Democrats pushed back a meeting to vote on advancing the nomination of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pam-bondi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pam Bondi</a> to become U.S. attorney general by a week with a hold allowed under the rules.

John Thune

Senate Republicans Erupt Over Dem ‘Stalling’ Of Trump Nominees

John Ratcliffe

Kristi Noem

Pam Bondi

Pete Hegseth

Senate Democrats

Tom Cotton

Leftist Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy was harshly criticized after he insisted in the wake of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, “Murder isn’t justified. It isn’t,” then followed with, “but&#8230;”
Murphy, who mocked President-elect Donald Trump over the summer as “ridiculous” and “reckless” during the presidential campaign, released a video on Sunday in which he demagogued the issue of violence against the heads of insurance companies.
“Listen, I think that political leaders in this country need to be part of this conversation that’s happening all over the country in the wake of the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO,” he declared. Then, patting himself on the back, he continued. “I know that it’s fraught; I know that it’s uncomfortable, but this is really important.”
“Listen, I’m never going to condone violence; I don’t here,” he stated. “I spend my entire life fighting gun violence because I know that the devastation is enormous that it leaves behind. What I see happening in this country, though, is a real visceral anger, that the outrage at Brian Thompson’s death, or the outrage at the death of any powerful person, isn’t matched by the anger over the thousands of people who die often anonymous deaths every single day in this country at the hands of a healthcare industry that mostly doesn’t give a sh** about people, and only care about profits.”
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“Ordinary people in this country are not indifferent to the loss of life but these companies are,” he insisted before vilifying insurance companies. “Why do I know this? Why do millions of Americans know this? Because the business model of the healthcare industry is to deny care, necessary medical care, to people who need it, and force them into bankruptcy or worse, let them die in order to grow profit. There are a ton of good people in the healthcare industry: nurses, doctors. But that’s an immoral system.&#8221;
Then he launched into his diatribe: “Watching people die, ruining families financially to pad profits and make money for the people who run the biggest companies? Murder is never justified. It isn’t. But if this country’s leaders don’t pay attention to the conversation that’s happening right now, this weekend, that is a mistake.”
“People in America today feel ignored, they feel scared, they feel alone in a system that intentionally grinds them down. A system where profit matters more than life. My colleagues need to listen, and we need to do something about it,” he concluded.
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I know it&#8217;s uncomfortable for political leaders to wade into the conversation that&#8217;s happening in this country in the aftermath of the murder of the United Health CEO. But we need to listen to what people are feeling. And act. <a href="https://t.co/V3WwRV74Fo">pic.twitter.com/V3WwRV74Fo</a>
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1868406841325007036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Social media ripped into Murphy:
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Maybe you should stop following the people cheering on execution on BlueSky.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1868442013915562475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Holy crap. This is a senator essentially justifying murder. <a href="https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy">https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy</a>
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1868471422605275334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Delete this. Using murder as a call for action is an implicit call for violence that will boomerang. 🪃. This isn’t okay.
I fight like hell to fix our healthcare system which is broken thanks to the straitjacket of insane govt regulations and cronyism. But this is messed up.
— Joe Lonsdale (@JTLonsdale) <a href="https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1868514936609230928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The pro murder bloc expands. <a href="https://t.co/kkUKmXgP5u">https://t.co/kkUKmXgP5u</a>
— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) <a href="https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1868512939940159828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The lack of self-awareness in this is astonishing.
The government is a terrible, inefficient dumpster that constantly harms people. Would Chris be cool with his logic being applied to himself? <a href="https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy">https://t.co/MmKNSvZhBy</a>
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1868473761365966882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Last summer, Murphy <a href="https://www.courant.com/2024/04/14/u-s-sen-chris-murphy-with-large-lead-and-9-million-campaign-cash-in-bank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">predicted,</a> “Biden is going to crush Trump in Connecticut because most Republicans in Connecticut cannot stand Trump. You look where Biden does the best in Connecticut, and it’s often in places where the Republicans just a generation ago would clean up. I think Biden is going to win by 20-plus points in Connecticut. Trump is more ridiculous, more reckless, and more dangerous today than he was four years ago, and I think people in Connecticut know that.”
Vice President Kamala Harris won Connecticut by 14.5 points.
Murphy has also <a href="//C9196CB5-E324-4809-9891-33B06180AD09/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> illegal immigrants the “people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,&#8221;

2024 Democratic National Convention: Day 3

‘Using Murder As A Call For Action’: Dem Senator Ripped For Comments On UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder

Brian Thompson

Luigi Mangione

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