Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has confirmed longheld Republican suspicions: Protests are bought and paid for by big donor Democrats.
Murphy admits he has been pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars of his donor money to fund left-wing street protest organizations.
Now, he’s telling radicals that the 2028 presidential election might not even take place.
The Connecticut Democrat made the alarming claim at a May 26 book tour event during a Q&A with former NBC journalist Katie Couric to help sell his new book, “Crisis of the Common Good.”
When Couric asked Murphy about his national ambitions, he answered by suggesting the country might not make it to the next election.
“Here’s the honest truth: I don’t know that there’s going to be an election in 2028,” Murphy told the audience.
“Don’t say that,” Couric warned.
“I think there is, but we gotta do the work,” Murphy replied, and said activists across the country should begin to fight to the streets.
It is the same message Murphy has been delivering for months while simultaneously bankrolling the street protests that often descend into violence.
Since launching his American Mobilization Project PAC earlier this year, Murphy has paid nearly $1 million from his donor funds to pay for so-called “grassroots” organizations. His most recent donation: $100,000 to Indivisible, the group behind the “No Kings” rallies.
Many of these paid protests have turned violent. In Maine, a woman at a “No Kings” rally was caught on video saying she wanted the president dead. In Washington state, a man told a reporter he wanted to murder White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
Murphy has also sent $400,000 to pay for street protests in battleground states including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Louisiana, Utah, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. His PAC has said they’ll send $2 million to protesters throughout the 2026 midterm cycle.
Murphy acknowledged he is specifically funding these leftwing protests, and said he doesn’t intend to stop.
“The only way we save this nation is if the people of this country rise up in peaceful protest, if they mobilize, all across America,” he said recently at a Senate press conference. “We have no obligation to sugarcoat the gravity of this moment.”
“We may not have another election, at least a free and fair election, if we don’t stop this slide away from free speech and democracy quickly,” he later added. “And what we know from history is that the only way to stop a, you know, would-be tyrant from cratering, from destroying a democracy is mass mobilization.”
He called on more Democrats to open their donors wallets and help openly fund the unrest.
“There are senators and House members sitting on millions of dollars, and my warning is pretty simple — you may never get to spend that money,” Murphy said.
The White House is not amused, given the escalating political violence in the country. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson pointed to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and connected it directly to Murphy’s language.
“Right before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Chris Murphy told his supporters they were in a ‘war’ and needed to do ‘whatever is necessary’ to win,” Jackson said. “In the wake of radical left-wing violence, Murphy has doubled down by peddling insane conspiracy theories.”
Murphy dismissed the criticism when pressed by reporters.
“We have to tell the truth, and the truth is hard to hear right now,” he said.
Paying activists, telling them they are in a battle for the survival of democracy, and funding their protests in the streets is not a call to peaceful civic engagement, critics say. It is, they say, a call to conflict.