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We all know who the front-runners are for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 — Newsom, AOC, Harris redux, Buttigieg, Pritzker, that bald guy who likes flirting with sedition and was once an astronaut.

That’s not a “deep bench,” as pundits too prone to sports metaphors like to put it, which means there will be plenty of minor candidates that will litter the field for at least a little while to see if they catch on.

One of them is almost certainly Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who’s been busy since the early morning hours of Nov. 6, 2024 — when it became clear that we weren’t going to have a Momala-in-chief — trying to convince Democratic voters outside of the Northeast that he really exists and actually holds that position and isn’t just some fake senator your asinine political wonk friend drops into a conversation to prove you don’t know your stuff.

What does he stand for? What do you want him to stand for? He doesn’t have any especial substantive accomplishments in the upper chamber since getting elected to his seat in 2012, and the rest of his political career is similarly undistinguished. But that’s never stopped anyone looking for the Democratic nomination in 2028 (see: virtually every name I checked in the first paragraph), and if someone who gets attention is what you want, someone who gets attention is what you’ll get, American left.

Unfortunately, this has led to a sequence of events in which 1) Murphy pretended to root for Iran against the United States in the current Middle East conflict, 2) got called out for it, and 3) said his words were obvious “sarcasm” and shouldn’t be taken at face value.

This would be bad enough if it were the first time Murphy’s been through the I-didn’t-mean-it-that-way rodeo. Unfortunately, he’s ridden the bull of dim word choice at inopportune times before — and just seven months ago, days before the assassination of Charlie Kirk, where his poor word choice indicated he wouldn’t mind seeing some, you know, direct action taken against the right. Hint hint.

But the Iran thing, first. Here’s Murphy reposting Tehran-backed propaganda claiming that “26 shadow fleet vessels bypass US blockade” of Iranian ports.

Murphy had one word........

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