Chris Murphy: ‘If We Continue to Engage in Business as Usual, This Democracy Could Be Gone’

Are we willing to fight?

I admit that it would take some risk-tolerant behavior so that effectively stand up to this president.

Listen, we have options.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) in Washington, D.C, on February 8, 2024.Ricky Carioti/Getty Images

We could decide to not proceed to legislation as an ordinary course of business.

So we have opportunities as a caucus to stand up and meet this moment.

And I think the American people are demanding that we do that.

And that is the conversation that we have to start having inside our caucus.