Ep. 497 — Sen. Chris Murphy
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
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Doing Something Good and Getting Reelected Are Not Mutually Exclusive
I think most people who come there want to do good things, i don't doubt that. It's just that all these republicans thought they were. This this mythology that's built up in the national political dialogue after 19 94,. write the mythology is that people voted for the assault weapon span and lost their seat of it in 19 94. And so we had to prove to republicans that you could make this country safer... You could cross the eneray and get a political benefit out of it. I'm sure that will be the result. In proving that, for the 15 republicans in the senate that voted yes, miss bill, i think that we will be able to pass more
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