Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) admitted in a recent social media post that the Democratic Party could not rely on policies and programs alone if they wanted to win elections — and then suggested that promoting class warfare would help their cause.
Murphy made the comments in a Tuesday post to X, citing a recent study that showed most Democrats were not tailoring their campaigns to make them about disparities in wealth.
&#8220;A new study showing that 4 out of 5 Democratic candidates don&#8217;t talk about billionaire and corporate power,&#8221; Murphy complained.
The study highlighted the fact that Democrats have been losing support among the working class since 2012, and Murphy outright suggested that class warfare was the best way to get working class voters back into the Democrat Party fold.
&#8220;Democrats cannot win if we just talk about programs,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We need to tell a story — about how the concentration and [sic] wealth &amp; power is ruining America.&#8221;
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A new study showing that 4 out of 5 Democratic candidates don&#39;t talk about billionaire and corporate power.
Democrats cannot win if we just talk about programs.
We need to tell a story &#8211; about how the concentration and wealth &amp; power is ruining America.<a href="https://t.co/yQPJi8VJzj">https://t.co/yQPJi8VJzj</a>
&mdash; Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1767612053215117495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Critics were quick to point out that Murphy appeared to have let the mask slip, admitting that Democrat policies and programs were not winning over the American voters — and that keeping the people divided, pitting average Americans against the wealthy and corporations, was the only way that they could hope to win.
&#8220;It&#8217;s Marxism 101. Create an oppressor class, create an oppressed class, and pit them against each other. Democrats have been doing a very good job of it, but Murphy wants even more,&#8221; one social media user responded.
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It&#39;s Marxism 101. Create an oppressor class, create an oppressed class, and pit them against each other. Democrats have been doing a very good job of it, but Murphy wants even more. <a href="https://t.co/Kwc5GKQ7Yc">https://t.co/Kwc5GKQ7Yc</a>
&mdash; 👠 Laura #Covfefe 👠 (@mwenger1993) <a href="https://twitter.com/mwenger1993/status/1767921432820961528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;In other words, Democrats need to appeal to people&#8217;s resentments and class warfare. (And before anyone types &#8216;what about,&#8217; I don&#8217;t like the Republican populist version of that, either),&#8221; another posted.
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In other words, Democrats need to appeal to people&#39;s resentments and class warfare.
(And before anyone types &quot;what about,&quot; I don&#39;t like the Republican populist version of that, either.) <a href="https://t.co/Q5XynJ3Y50">https://t.co/Q5XynJ3Y50</a>
&mdash; Phineas Fahrquar (@irishspy) <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1767980922329248010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Here&#8217;s Chris Murphy confessing that the only way Democrats can win is through division and class warfare. Thanks, Chris. We already knew that. You disgrace,&#8221; Twitchy&#8217;s Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) added.
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Here&#39;s Chris Murphy confessing that the only way Democrats can win is through division and class warfare. 
Thanks, Chris. We already knew that. 
You disgrace. <a href="https://t.co/S1w9Ne0yaJ">https://t.co/S1w9Ne0yaJ</a>
&mdash; Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) <a href="https://twitter.com/shoveitjack/status/1767634470289420370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told MSNBC this week that his party supports the Senate&#8217;s controversial border bill because it prioritizes the people that Democrats care the most about: illegal aliens.
Murphy made the admission during an interview on the far-left network&#8217;s &#8220;All In With Chris Hayes&#8221; on Wednesday night while talking about the border bill that was unveiled this week in the Senate.
Hayes asked Murphy about why the bill did not have a pathway to citizenship for millions of migrants who illegally came to the United States and suggested that Republicans were to blame.
&#8220;Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years. So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,” Murphy said. “This is also not 2013 any longer. When we ran that play last back then, there were a couple hundred people showing up every day applying for asylum. Today, on some days, there are 8,000. And the reality is, is that the bulk of this country does not think that that’s right or sustainable and wants us to change the reality at the border.&#8221;
&#8220;So I know there’s a temptation for Democrats, and I know you weren’t looking for this argument, but I think there is a temptation to just run the same play we always run because we know how to run it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But when it hasn’t worked and when the country is actually demanding that we do something to make the border more manageable, I do think we have a right and a responsibility to adjust to that reality. Now, this bill still had in it some really important things for migrant rights, including a right to representation and earlier work permits and the biggest expansion of visas in 30 years. It’s not a pathway to citizenship, but it is something substantial for people that actually care about migrants.&#8221;
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WATCH: Sen. Chris Murphy admits Democrats&#39; &quot;strategy&quot; on immigration &quot;has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country,&quot; so they&#39;re adjusting it. 
Dems are destroying the concept of “citizen.” <a href="https://t.co/6vOmrmioQU">pic.twitter.com/6vOmrmioQU</a>
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A top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> negotiator working to reach <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-says-border-security-talks-face-quandary-as-the-politics-have-changed-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an agreement</a> coupling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border security</a> reforms with aid for U.S. allies, such as Ukraine and Israel, said on Sunday the deal could be up for consideration on the Senate floor this week.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told CNN that lawmakers are &#8220;finishing the text right now&#8221; but warned that the &#8220;bipartisan deal&#8221; may be in jeopardy if Republicans &#8220;listen to&#8221; former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and reject the compromise that is backed by the Biden administration.
&#8220;I am hopeful that we will still have enough Republicans in the Senate who want to fix the problem at the border, rather than just do Donald Trump&#8217;s bidding, but we will see over the next 24 to 48 hours whether that&#8217;s true,&#8221; Murphy said.
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I went on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNSOTU</a> this morning to talk about the bipartisan immigration bill and how it will better manage the flow of people at our southern border. We should pass this bill despite Donald Trump’s desire to keep chaos at the border because it helps him politically. <a href="https://t.co/7inviqO4rH">pic.twitter.com/7inviqO4rH</a>
&mdash; Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1751620141782032781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trump, who is the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential contest after winning the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, has discouraged compromise in the talks that seek to implement immigration reforms and answer President Joe Biden&#8217;s request last year for roughly $106 billion in supplemental funds to spend on U.S. allies — including Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan — as well as border security and humanitarian assistance.
&#8220;I do not think we should do a Border Deal, at all, unless we get EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION of Millions &amp; Millions of people, many from parts unknown, into our once great, but soon to be great again, Country!&#8221; he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111775026153711896" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to Truth Social this month.
Purported details of the not-yet-released deal have emerged over the past couple of weeks. One alleged part that has drawn blowback from Republicans is a section that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-border-bill-allow-5000-migrants-day-before-title-42-limit-starts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported would establish a threshold of a seven-day rolling average exceeding 5,000 encounters a day to trigger a Title 42-like authority to quickly remove migrants at the border.
&#8220;This bill normalizes 5,000 people a day coming in, 5,000 people a day is over 1.8 million a year. That’s called an invasion,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6345771049112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). &#8220;By the way, under [President] Joe Biden, we’ve had 9.6 million. So, the great Republican compromise is we’re for two-thirds of Joe Biden’s open borders. We’ll let in 6 million instead of 9 million. This makes utterly no sense.&#8221;
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), who has been working with Murphy to come up with a compromise deal, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6345771049112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> on the critique from Cruz when asked to confirm whether the 5,000 encounters threshold was part of the agreement, contending that the section in question is being misinterpreted.
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Sen. Lankford denies the media reports that the Senate border bill allows up to 5,000 illegal immigrants per day into the U.S., calling it &quot;internet rumors.&quot;
&quot;This bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day&#8230;This is the most misunderstood section&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/6u4Ro9HJ6j">pic.twitter.com/6u4Ro9HJ6j</a>
&mdash; Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1751636659387396529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Right now, there’s internet rumors. It’s all that people are running. It would be absolutely absurd for me to agree to 5,000 people a day,&#8221; he said on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; with anchor Shannon Bream, contending that the section is designed to shut down the border if there is a &#8220;rush of people&#8221; approaching.
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&#8220;This bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day. There’s no amnesty. It increases the number of Border Patrol agents and it increases asylum officers. It increases detention beds so we can quickly detain and then deport individuals,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It ends catch-and-release. It focuses on additional deportation flights out. It changes our asylum process so that people can get a fast asylum screening at a higher standard and then get returned back to their home country.&#8221;
Lankford also dismissed critics who claim the deal would still allow many people into the country while giving Biden a political victory that he could brag about in an election year.
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Fox: Why give Biden this in an election year? He gets to take a victory lap.
Sen. James Lankford: Republicans 4 months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, Israel, &amp; the border bc we demanded changes in policy&#8230; and now&#8230;they&#39;re like, &quot;just kidding&quot;.<a href="https://t.co/cqEe7mAywp">pic.twitter.com/cqEe7mAywp</a>
&mdash; The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) <a href="https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1751654894744817848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It is interesting: Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel, and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy. So, we actually locked arms together and said, &#8216;We’re not going to give money for this. We want a change in law,'&#8221; Lanford said. &#8220;And now, it’s interesting, a few months later, when we’re finally getting to the end, they’re like, &#8216;Oh, just kidding, I actually don&#8217;t want a change in law because of the presidential election year.&#8217; We all have an oath to the Constitution and we have a commitment to say we’re going to do whatever we can to be able to secure the border.&#8221;

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Senate Negotiators Wrapping Up Border Deal, Push Back On ‘Internet Rumors’

Senate Negotiators Wrapping Up Border Deal, Push Back On 'Internet Rumors'

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) signaled over the weekend that it was time to start cracking down on Chinese-controlled TikTok in the wake of Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attacks because of the content that the company is promoting.
Murphy&#8217;s remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with host Dana Bash come as numerous officials have accused the company of being a propaganda tool of the Chinese Communist Party.
&#8220;Senator, we have seen an alarming spike in antisemitism, hate against Jews, across the United States, but particularly on college campuses,&#8221; Bash said. &#8220;You also sit on the Senate committee that deals with education.&#8221;
&#8220;What&#8217;s gone so wrong on America&#8217;s college campuses that you have students openly applauding the terrorist killings of 1,200 or more civilians?&#8221; she asked.
Murphy responded, &#8220;Listen, I&#8217;m all for free speech on our campuses, but I have been very disappointed at the response of many of our University officials. There&#8217;s a direct line between some of the most vicious antisemitism speech happening on our campus and threats of violence to synagogues and to Jewish communities. I ultimately think we need to sort of think really hard about the way in which our young people are receiving information about this conflict.&#8221;
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&#8220;We need to hold accountable the social media sites, in particular, TikTok, which is just full of virulent pro-Hamas and antisemitic material. The college campuses need to have a better means of accountability for this kind of hate speech,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But we also have to recognize that these young people are getting their information from somewhere, often from a Chinese-controlled social media platform that has in its interests trying to turn Americans against each other. And one of the means they may be doing that is trying to promote a lot of pretty hateful and divisive material about the conflict in Gaza.&#8221;
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Democrat Senator Murphy Advocates Cracking Down On TikTok: ‘Full Of Virulent Pro-Hamas’ Material

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-chris-murphy-claims-there-have-been-frank-camp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Murphy</a> (D-CT) claimed over the weekend that the American people would &#8220;revolt&#8221; if the United States Supreme Court continued to block new gun control laws.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-chris-murphy-outlines-all-the-ways-some-gop-senators-are-cracking-on-gun-control" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Murphy</a> made the comments to NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd during Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; — after which he dug in even further, going on to attack the credibility and legitimacy of the current court.
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Democrat Senator Chris Murphy: &quot;There&#39;s gonna be a popular revolt&quot; if the Supreme Court finds &quot;universal background checks&quot; or assault weapons bans are unconstitutional <a href="https://t.co/1bBZDmFFsd">pic.twitter.com/1bBZDmFFsd</a>
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Murphy referenced a 2022 Supreme Court decision — authored by Clarence Thomas in the 6-3 majority — that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-scotus-strikes-down-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> New York&#8217;s restrictions on concealed carry, along with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-strikes-down-law-requiring-people-to-be-21-to-buy-handguns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more recent decision</a> from Virginia District Court Judge Robert Payne. Payne ruled that a ban on gun sales for 18-20-year-olds would effectively impose restrictions on certain citizens that &#8220;do not exist with other constitutional guarantees.&#8221;
Complaining that the courts had often halted any progress toward stricter gun control measures by interfering in anything legislators were able to get done, Murphy said, &#8220;If the Supreme Court eventually says that states or the Congress can’t pass universal background checks or can’t take these assault weapons off the streets, I think there’s going to be a popular revolt over that policy.&#8221;
The Connecticut Senator then turned his attack on the Supreme Court directly, adding, &#8220;A court that’s already pretty illegitimate, is going to be in full crisis mode.&#8221; He went on to promise that legislators would continue to &#8220;regulate who owns weapons and what kind of weapons are owned&#8221; — with or without pushback from the courts.
&#8220;We broke a 30 year logjam last year by passing the first major gun safety initiative. You’re seeing Republican states like Tennessee looking at red flag laws, Texas considering raising the age to buy assault weapons. I think our movement is in a position to win,&#8221; he told Todd during Sunday&#8217;s broadcast.

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Democrat Senator Says People Will ‘Revolt’ If Supreme Court Blocks Gun Control

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy Says People Will 'Revolt' If Supreme Court Blocks Gun Control

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) admitted that President Joe Biden has &#8220;probably not&#8221; secured the needed 60 votes to pass <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gun-control" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gun control</a> in the lame-duck session of Congress.
Appearing on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/11/27/chris-murphy-assault-weapons-ban-sotu-vpx.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of the Union</a>&#8221; Sunday, Murphy dashed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden</a>&#8216;s hopes to pass an assault weapons ban. However, Murphy did praise the sweeping gun bill passed earlier this year and claimed that banning assault weapons would lead to fewer mass shootings.
&#8220;I&#8217;m glad that President Biden is going to be pushing us to take a vote on an assault weapons ban,&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;The House has already passed it. It&#8217;s sitting in front of the Senate. Does it have 60 votes in the Senate right now? Probably not. But let&#8217;s see if we can try to get that number as close to 60 as possible. If we don&#8217;t have the votes, then we will talk to Senator Schumer and maybe come back next year with maybe an additional senator and see if we can do better.&#8221;
&#8220;President Biden is right,&#8221; Murphy continued. &#8220;If we passed an assault weapons ban, we would see less mass shootings in this country. Yes, there are already tens of thousands of assault weapons on the street. Nobody&#8217;s talking about taking those weapons away from individuals. We&#8217;re just talking about stopping new sales.&#8221;
&#8220;But if you look at some of the most high-profile mass shootings in the last couple of years, many of those mass shooters bought the weapon just days before carrying out the crime,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And so, if those weapons were no longer commercially available, only in possession of those who had bought them previously, I think a lot of mass shootings would have been prevented.&#8221;
Biden told reporters Thursday that he planned to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-he-wants-congress-to-pass-gun-control-in-lame-duck-session" target="_blank" rel="noopener">push for an assault weapons ban</a> after two recent mass shootings left 11 people dead.
“I’m sick and tired of these shootings,” Biden said. “We should have much stricter gun laws.”
Biden then said he intended to pass a gun control bill during the lame-duck session if he could get the votes.
“I’m going to try,” Biden replied. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.”
“During the lame duck?” the reporter asked again.
“I’m going to do it whenever I — I got to make that assessment as I get in and start counting the votes.”

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-murphy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Murphy</a> (D-CT) called for an investigation into <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> since a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/saudi-arabia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saudi Arabian</a> company linked to the nation’s ruling family is now the second-largest shareholder.
Kingdom Holding Company and the private investment office of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal announced last week that the organizations hold nearly 35 million shares in Twitter even after <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> acquired the social media platform, according to a <a href="https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/1585975226567110656" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> released by the royal. Although Musk said he purchased the company to encourage free expression and combat political polarization, Murphy called for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to examine Saudi Arabia&#8217;s potential role as new ownership changes the website.
“Today I am requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment — which reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign buyers — to conduct an investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s purchase of Twitter,” the lawmaker <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1587091081920929796" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on social media. “We should be concerned that the Saudis, who have a clear interest in repressing political speech and impacting U.S. politics, are now the second-largest owner of a major social media platform.”
Murphy noted that both TikTok and Twitter, two of the most prominent American social media platforms, would be owned “in whole or in part” by China and Saudi Arabia. “There is a clear national security issue at stake and CFIUS should do a review,” he continued. “This is a dangerous trend, and we don&#8217;t have to accept it.”
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, maintains a 16.9% stake in Kingdom Holding Company.
The proposal comes as leftists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-outlines-new-content-moderation-strategy">voice distrust</a> for Musk and his leadership of the social media platform. The world’s richest man <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-proposes-twitter-buyout-at-54-20-per-share-trading-halted-as-stock-price-soars">revived</a> efforts to purchase Twitter earlier this month after fighting the company in court over his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-purge-is-coming-twitter-explodes-after-elon-musk-tanks-44-billion-deal">attempt to cancel</a> a previous offer, a move he said was driven by concerns that executives were underestimating the number of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-the-latest-in-the-elon-musk-twitter-legal-feud">fake accounts</a> on the platform. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-officially-takes-over-twitter-as-sale-is-now-final-top-execs-fired-report-says">immediately fired</a> CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, who had a role in removing former President Donald Trump from the platform and suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story days before the election of 2020.
“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence,” Musk explained in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-elon-musk-explains-why-he-bought-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> last week. “There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society.”
Murphy’s calls for an investigation also occur amid poor relations between Saudi Arabia and members of the Democratic Party. Lawmakers have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-blame-the-saudis-democrat-congressman-responds-to-gas-prices-hitting-6-50-in-his-district" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned</a> the wisdom of the United States’ continued alliance with the country after officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/saudi-arabia-helps-russia-cut-oil-output-in-slight-to-united-states-sending-prices-soaring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> to restrict global petroleum output, leading to a worldwide surge in oil prices. The Saudi government later revealed in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-threat-after-saudis-nix-midterm-friendly-oil-plan-looks-like-quid-pro-quo-says-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that President Joe Biden had requested for the kingdom to delay the production cut until the upcoming midterm elections had concluded.
The commander-in-chief previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sleepy-biden-doesnt-know-if-hes-going-to-saudi-arabia-hint-joe-you-are" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called the nation</a> a “pariah” during the 2020 election cycle in response to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-saudi-spy-chief-offers-brutal-appraisal-of-biden-amid-trip-to-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder</a> of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been critical of the kingdom’s rulers. Leaders from Saudi Arabia and China said two weeks ago that the two nations plan to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/saudi-arabia-strengthens-ties-with-china-after-snubs-begging-from-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strengthen cooperation</a> on energy.

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; apparently dislike Sen. <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/kyrsten-sinema/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kyrsten Sinema</a> (D-AZ) so much that at least Sunny Hostin is willing to rewrite history in order to attack her.
Cohosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin laid into the Arizona Democrat during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show, taking aim at her for daring to work across the aisle with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
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Ignorant of recent history and how Congress works, Joy claims &quot;if the Republicans take over the House and the Senate&quot; they would &quot;overthrow the filibuster.&quot; The GOP had the Senate under Trump and McConnell refused to kill the filibuster for him, as Alyssa Farah Griffin explained. <a href="https://t.co/ShxoO4w73y">pic.twitter.com/ShxoO4w73y</a>
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&#8220;Is this the picture of bipartisan politics?&#8221; Goldberg asked, her face showing displeasure. &#8220;Do we need more of this or do both of their records kind of tell a different story?&#8221;
&#8220;She&#8217;s not popular in her own state,&#8221; Behar said of Sinema, adding, &#8220;Fifty-five percent of women find her &#8216;unfavorable.&#8217; Men don&#8217;t like her, white voters don&#8217;t like her, Hispanic voters don&#8217;t like her, voters 50 and over don&#8217;t like her, younger voters don&#8217;t like her — the only person who seems to like her is Mitch McConnell! And Mitch McConnell likes her because she works with him to obstruct the Democrats.&#8221;
Behar went on to claim that if Republicans were to win control of the Senate in 2022, McConnell would lead them to &#8220;overthrow the filibuster&#8221; — despite the fact that, as new Republican cohost <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-republican-host-of-the-view-admits-she-might-consider-voting-for-a-democrat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alyssa Farah Griffin</a> pointed out, he hadn&#8217;t done so when he had the power in the past.
&#8220;Trump pushed him to a bunch of times,&#8221; Griffin objected. &#8220;He would tweet out, &#8216;you need to nuke the filibuster&#8217; and [McConnell] didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
It was Hostin who attempted to rewrite history, however, claiming that it was Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) who got recent <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gun control legislation</a> across the finish line rather than Sinema because of her willingness to work across the aisle and get Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on board.
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Whoopi declares &quot;when people are full of it they&#39;re full of it.&quot; &quot;We all know we&#39;re full of it until something you don&#39;t want to do comes up they don&#39;t want to do then we&#39;re back to that. There&#39;s no discussion here.&quot; The producers then loudly play her off. <a href="https://t.co/fN3wlKKFzn">pic.twitter.com/fN3wlKKFzn</a>
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Cohost Sara Haines attempted to defend Sinema, noting that she had worked with Cornyn to get something done after no real movement on gun control in three decades.
Hostin dismissed the facts outright, claiming that Murphy had been the one to get it done even though he had been working on the issue since the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, with little to show for it before Sinema convinced Cornyn to join them.
&#8220;I really think it&#8217;s a bridge too far to say that Sinema saved our gun legislation,&#8221; she insisted.
Griffin and Haines both pushed back, noting that the bill would have stalled without the Republican support that Sinema had been able to deliver when Murphy could not.

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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy (CT) told CNN on Sunday about all the different gun control measures that some Republican Senators are considering in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Murphy told CNN host Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; that he has &#8220;never been part of negotiations as serious as these.&#8221;
Murphy claimed there were &#8220;more Republicans at the table talking about changing our gun laws and investing in mental health than at any time since Sandy Hook.&#8221;
Murphy said items that were on the table and being discussed with Republican lawmakers included &#8220;red flag laws&#8221; and &#8220;changes to our background check system to improve the existing system,&#8221; along with &#8220;a handful of other items that will make a difference.&#8221;
Murphy claimed that Democrats were &#8220;not going to do anything that compromises people&#8217;s Second Amendment rights.&#8221; However, several moments later, he said that he wanted to &#8220;put a piece of legislation on the table that&#8217;s going to ban&#8221; semi-automatic long guns but that it was not going to happen this time.
He went on to mention Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who has discussed ways to scrutinize juvenile records.
&#8220;What we&#8217;re talking about is trying to make sure that dangerous or potentially dangerous individuals don&#8217;t have their hands on weapons. Senator Cornyn has also talked about his interest in taking a look at how we access juvenile records for these young men who tend to be 18 to 21, committing these mass murders, to make sure that they can&#8217;t get their hands on a weapon if they have had problems with the law in the past,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re likely going to pair it with some significant mental health spending, which will make a difference as well.&#8221;
Murphy said that instituting a &#8220;red flag law&#8221; was &#8220;the most important&#8221; piece of gun control that Democrats want to pass at this current moment that they think even has a shot of hitting 60 votes in the Senate.
&#8220;And it&#8217;s not just about getting more states to pass red flag laws,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s actually about helping states implement red flag laws.&#8221;
When asked if President Joe Biden should jump in to try to help negotiations, Murphy quickly responded, &#8220;I think the Senate needs to do this ourselves.&#8221;
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Democrat Senator Chris Murphy Outlines All The Ways Some GOP Senators Are Cracking On Gun Control

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy Breaks Down The Ways Some GOP Sens Are Changing On Gun Control

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier slammed Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) during a Sunday interview in which he accused Murphy of making false claims about Florida&#8217;s &#8220;Parental Rights in Education&#8221; law after the lawmaker claimed the law &#8220;target[s]&#8221; gay children.
Baier had asked Murphy if he agreed with President Joe Biden (D) demonizing supporters of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s (R) policies as being &#8220;the most extreme political organization that&#8217;s existed&#8221; in recent American history.
Murphy responded by not answering the question and instead trying to claim that the law in Florida was targeting gay kids.
&#8220;I mean, I, I am very concerned about the sort of very quick, hateful, divisive turn, that the Republican Party has taken,&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;This effort in Florida, to sort of target gay kids in schools, I just think is mean spirited, and something that I had not seen from the Republican Party when I first started out in politics 20 years ago.&#8221;
&#8220;Hold on, I&#8217;m going to interrupt you. To target gay kids in schools? The bill is about not talking about sexual identity from K through third grade. That&#8217;s not targeting gay kids,&#8221; Baier pushed back.
&#8220;Yes it is. It is absolutely is,&#8221; Murphy claimed. &#8220;It is sending a message to these kids, that they are not worthy, that they should be ashamed of their identification.&#8221;
Murphy proceeded to talk over Baier as Baier pointed out that the law was about not discussing sexual identity with young children.
&#8220;Senator, do you talk to your kindergartner about sexual identity?&#8221; Baier asked.
&#8220;Half of trans kids in this country have contemplated suicide and that&#8217;s because of the effort to bully them for their identity by adults in this country,&#8221; Murphy replied without answering the question.
&#8220;With your children, did you talk about sexual identity as a kindergartner?&#8221; Baier again pressed before dropping a memorable line: &#8220;I mean, you don&#8217;t talk about the birds and the bees, let alone the birds and the birds, at that age, kindergarten through third grade.&#8221;
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Sen. Chris Murphy, a professional Twitter troll who says Republicans are &quot;divisive&quot;, defends Joe Biden&#39;s claim that Trump supporters are part of the most extremist political movement in history, then ridiculously says FL is &quot;targeting gay kids.&quot; Bret Baier pushes back hard. <a href="https://t.co/VdtQnsFYZH">pic.twitter.com/VdtQnsFYZH</a>
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Rep. Chris Murphy, Activists, Call For Steps To End Gun Violence On Capitol Hill

Bret Baier Torches Senator Murphy With Memorable Line Over Claims On Florida Law

Bret Baier Calls Out Senator Chris Murphy's Claims About Florida's 'Parental Rights In Education' Law

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed on Sunday that Democrats have enough votes to enact a new crackdown on guns before admitting that they, in fact, do not have enough votes because of the filibuster.
&#8220;The fact that matter is, we have the votes in the House and the Senate for a universal background checks bill. We have a president who will sign it. It&#8217;s the rules of the Senate that prevent us from passing it. We probably have 52, 53, 54 votes in the Senate for this,&#8221; Murphy claimed during an interview on CNN. &#8220;So the rules right now are what prevent us from being able to enact the will of the public. But I also understand that this is, I think, one of the great social change movements in this nation&#8217;s history, that we can&#8217;t let failure or obstacles stop us.&#8221;
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Sen. Chris Murphy: &quot;We have the votes in the House and the Senate for universal background checks bill. [&#8230;] It&#39;s the rules of the Senate that prevent us from passing it. [&#8230;] If we don&#39;t change the rules of the Senate, then we&#39;re ultimately gonna need 60 votes.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/jYJioaydqw">pic.twitter.com/jYJioaydqw</a>
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<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, HOST: Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut speaking out this week after yet another deadly shooting, this one in Michigan, where four students were killed and seven others injured.
Senator Murphy says he will consider his time in public service &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;a failure&#8221; if he is not able to pass a significant federal firearms reform bill.
Senator Murphy of Connecticut joins us right now.
So, Senator, this horrific violence at Oxford High School in Michigan, it was the deadliest school shooting in more than three years. The ninth anniversary of Sandy Hook is just over a week away. You obviously represent Sandy Hook in the Senate.
We have a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, a pro-gun control president, Democrat. No new gun regulations have passed. Why not?
SEN. CHRIS MURPHY (D-CT): Well, listen, I think it&#8217;s first important to remember that, while the nation pays attention to the epidemic of shooting in this country on days in which there is a mass shooting, 100 people every day are dying from gunshot wounds, and we have seen a dramatic uptick in violence since the beginning of the pandemic.
The fact that matter is, we have the votes in the House and the Senate for a universal background checks bill. We have a president who will sign it. It&#8217;s the rules of the Senate that prevent us from passing it. We probably have 52, 53, 54 votes in the Senate for this.
So the rules right now are what prevent us from being able to enact the will of the public. But I also understand that this is, I think, one of the great social change movements in this nation&#8217;s history, that we can&#8217;t let failure or obstacles stop us.
We&#8217;re going to have to continue to build a movement. If we don&#8217;t change the rules of the Senate, then we&#8217;re ultimately going to need 60 votes. And so we need to continue to build up our political power around the country.
TAPPER: So, Republican Senator Pat Toomey from the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania &#8212; and you have worked with him on this issue &#8212; he told me a few months ago &#8212; you will remember, of course, when he and Manchin, both NRA guys, put together a bill to close the so-called gun show loophole.
He said that he thinks that that could potentially get 60 votes in the Senate. But there&#8217;s been no progress on it because people who want gun reform in the Senate want big, sweeping gun reform and won&#8217;t be happy with even just an incremental step like closing the gun show loophole.
Wouldn&#8217;t that &#8212; I mean, isn&#8217;t something better than nothing?
MURPHY: Listen, I won&#8217;t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, right? I want universal background checks. I want a ban on assault weapons. But I will settle for something much less, because that will save lives.
So I have been in negotiations all year with Senator Toomey, with Senator Cornyn, with Lindsey Graham, trying to find a compromise that can get 60 votes in the Senate. Maybe this shooting will bring people back to the table.
But we haven&#8217;t taken a vote this year, in part because I have asked Senator Schumer for the room to try to negotiate that compromise that you&#8217;re talking about.
Listen, I wish my Republican colleagues didn&#8217;t sort of have epiphanies on this issue only after mass school shootings. But that tends to be what happens. And so my hope is that, in the next couple of weeks, we can get back to the table and see if we can, at the very least, as you said, maybe close the gun show loophole. That alone would save a lot of lives.
TAPPER: The prosecutor in Michigan is doing something unusual. She is charging the parents of the alleged gunman with involuntary manslaughter, because not only did they buy him the gun; they ignored his disturbing behavior, searching for ammunition on his cell phone, drawing violent pictures at school. The school alerted them, and they didn&#8217;t seem to care much.
Should more prosecutors be holding parents responsible when they&#8217;re obviously not doing enough to keep their guns out of the hands of children who use them for violent ends?
MURPHY: Well, if parents violate the law, then they should be held accountable.
In this case, I don&#8217;t know the details of the Michigan law. But it looks as if this &#8212; these parents bought a gun for their child, who shouldn&#8217;t have ever possessed it. And so if parents are in violation of state law, they should be held accountable.
I do think that this really should make us think hard about safe storage laws. In Connecticut, we have on the books a law that requires parents to safely store their guns. And if those guns aren&#8217;t locked up with minors in the House, they can be held accountable, without question. Michigan doesn&#8217;t have that law on the books.
But we should pass that on a national basis. And I think we would get a lot of gun owners to support us, to simply say, if you have minors in the house, if you have weapons, you have to keep those weapons locked up. If we just made that change, not only would that prevent some of these horrific mass shooting incidents.
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TAPPER: Suicide.
MURPHY: Suicide, right.
TAPPER: Which is &#8212; most of the gun deaths in this country are suicide, yes.
MURPHY: And accidental shootings, right?
So a safe storage law may be the kind of thing that could draw bipartisan compromise, that could get support of a lot of commonsense gun owners, because it&#8217;s not about taking anybody&#8217;s weapons away. It&#8217;s just about saying, if you&#8217;re going to own the weapon, store it safely.
TAPPER: So let&#8217;s turn to foreign policy.
President Biden&#8217;s going to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, we&#8217;re told. This call comes as &#8212; the same time that the U.S. intelligence is warning Russia&#8217;s amassing as many as 175,000 troops on the border with Ukraine, and could theoretically begin a massive military offensive within the next few months.
You&#8217;re on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. You have spent a lot of time in Ukraine. Do you think Putin intends to invade? And what should the U.S. do, if anything, to come to Ukraine&#8217;s defense if he does?
MURPHY: Yes, I have been to Ukraine six times since I entered the Senate. I have seen the intelligence, and the threat is serious.
I do think that there&#8217;s no substitute for person-to-person diplomacy. And so I hope that this meeting, this virtual meeting between President Biden and President Putin can bear fruit.
But let me say this. If Russia does decide to move further into Ukraine, it would be a mistake of historic proportions for Moscow. Right now, they occupy the eastern flank of the country. That&#8217;s a part of Ukraine that doesn&#8217;t have the same sense of Ukrainian nationalism that the rest of the country does.
Ukraine can become the next Afghanistan for Russia if it chooses to move further. And it&#8217;s up to us in the Congress to make clear that we are going to be diplomatic, political, and military partners with Ukraine, that we are going to provide them with increased military assistance, so that they can defend themselves.
And I hope that we take steps in Congress in the next week to make that clear.
TAPPER: Even more lethal aid than the U.S. has already given?
MURPHY: Well, right now, we have an amendment on the floor of the Senate that would dramatically increase the amount of lethal aid.
I support it. Republicans right now in the Senate are blocking that amendment from being considered. In addition, Republicans are blocking our ambassadors from being confirmed, in particular to the E.U., where a lot of this work will be done to try to bring our allies together.
So, we have got to get our Republican colleagues to understand this is the threat that many of us believe it to be.
TAPPER: Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, thanks so much for being here this morning.
MURPHY: Thank you.</blockquote>

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy: We Have The Votes For New Crackdown On Guns, Just Don’t Have Enough

Just hours after a gunman fatally shot 10 people in Boulder, Colorado, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) called for swift action on gun control legislation, saying that now is &#8220;the moment to make our stand.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the moment to make our stand. NOW,&#8221; Murphy wrote in a <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1374190783620866054">tweet</a> Monday night.
&#8220;Today, our movement is stronger than the gun lobby. They are weak. We are potent. Finally, a President and a Congress that supports gun reform. No more Newtowns. No more Parklands. No more Boulders. Now &#8211; we make our stand,&#8221; the Connecticut Democrat added.
Just before 5 p.m. EST on Monday, a gunman opened fire in a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, killing 10. Authorities have arrested one suspect, but the investigation will take several days, police said.
The shooting comes less than a week after another gunman shot and killed eight people at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area last week. A 21-year-old male suspect is also in custody in that case.
Earlier this month, Murphy reintroduced legislation to require federal background checks for all gun purchases, a proposal that made little progress while Republicans controlled the Senate.
The Background Check Expansion Act, co-sponsored by 43 Senate Democrats, would require unlicensed or private sellers to conduct a background check on the purchaser before selling them a firearm, including those selling online, at gun shows, and out of homes.
“Joe Biden and hundreds of congressional candidates from both parties ran on the issue of background checks. This is the year to get this bill passed into law,” Murphy said in a statement accompanying his reintroduction of the bill.
President Joe Biden campaigned on enacting universal background check legislation as well as closing loopholes that allow ineligible individuals to purchase firearms. With Democrats now in control of both chambers of Congress, the party hopes to see some legislative movement on gun control in the near future.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said this month that Democrats now have an “opportunity to act” on background check legislation after years of such bills being dead on arrival to the Senate.
“For years, this bipartisan House-passed background checks bill languished in the Senate under Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. Now, with Senate Democrats in the Majority, we have the opportunity to act on this overwhelmingly popular, lifesaving legislation to protect American communities,” Schumer said in a statement.
Republican lawmakers have pointed out that universal background check legislation would not have prevented many of the recent mass shootings in the U.S., including the Parkland school shooting in February 2018 that killed 17 students and staff. Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn noted that the shooters in both the Dayton and the El Paso shootings both passed background checks.
Enforcement of universal background checks would also be nearly impossible, critics say, since a criminal who wants a gun in order to commit a crime is less likely to submit to a background check or comply with other legal requirements such as even registering the gun.

Senate Democrat Says Boulder Shooting Is ‘The Moment To Make Our Stand’ On Gun Control

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