Lance iron of the agreement adopted on June 25 at the Congress to restrict access to arms in the United States, the Connecticut senator could in the future claim the Democratic inauguration at the White House.
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Ten years of waiting and finally a success, at a unlikely time. Senator Chris Murphy, 48, experienced an immense relief after the adoption at the Congress, on June 25, of a text strengthening controls on sales of firearms. The elected democrat led this bipartisan effort – a rarity in American politics – in response to the racist killing in a Buffalo supermarket which left ten dead, then the massacre in the school of Uvalde, Texas, in which Nineteen children were killed.
“But what do we do here?” Launched Chris Murphy, moved, within the Senate, after the drama. The senator has become the fierce lawyer of legislative limits on wearing weapons since the tragedy in the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newton, in 2012, in his Connecticut State (26 dead). A fight in opposite winds. On June 23, the Supreme Court devoted the right to carry a firearm outside of his home, whatever the State.
A specialist in foreign policy
In 2013, Chris Murphy joined the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, where he quickly distinguished himself. He opposed the idea of American strikes in Syria against the Bashar al-Assad regime to eliminate his chemical weapon program. Barack Obama finally fell back. In December 2013, he also found himself Maidan’s place in kyiv, on a stage alongside Republican John McCain, to address the crowd of Ukrainian, proeuropéens demonstrators. From John McCain (died in 2018), Chris Murphy learned how much a senator can have influence in foreign policy. In 2015, he supported the signing of the Iranian nuclear agreement, while many democratic colleagues were grimacing. 2> a theorist hostile to endless wars
In a report published in 2017, entitled “Rethinking the battlefield”, Chris Murphy recommended that they do not exclusively establish American power over his military capacities, but to invest massively – 50 billion dollars in addition – in His diplomacy. Wanting to distinguish itself from the “medieval view of the world” retained by Donald Trump, Chris Murphy spoke of crises and development aid, and warned against endless external wars, as in Afghanistan. As early as 2007, Chris Murphy put political pressure on the private paramilitary society Blackwater, for his lucrative contracts and his role in Afghanistan, by subcontracting from the United States.
a possible pretender to the White House
Joe Biden and Chris Murphy have the same approach to foreign policy. This is one of the reasons why the name of Murphy had circulated as possible secretary of state. Officially, Joe Biden intends to represent himself in 2024. The subject of his succession, within the Democratic Party, therefore remains a taboo, despite his 79 years. But the name of Chris Murphy has been quoted for years, even if he does not have a popularity similar to that of the veteran of the left, Bernie Sanders. If the victory is played out in the center, it could apply for the nomination. Elected in his state from the age of 25, in the House of Representatives at 33 and in the Senate at 39, Chris Murphy has already experienced an impressive ascent. How far?