Sen. Chris Murphy: Republican Party ‘Has Been Essentially a Cult of Personality for the Better Part of the Last Decade’

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MURPHY: “It says a lot about this party, but nothing terribly new because the party, unfortunately, has been essentially a cult of personality for the better part of the last decade. It’s certainly more acute today. There is just zero wiggle room. John Cornyn is a conservative pro-Trump Republican. Yes, on one or two issues over the last 10 years, he may have believed differently than the president, but the message is simply, if you don’t line up with me 100 percent of the time, 24/7, you have no room in this party. I think you’re right, though, to point out that he is endorsing Ken Paxton, somebody who he believes is fundamentally corrupt. And I think that says something else about the Republican Party.”