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Murphy Not Considering Run for President

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy says he will not consider a run for president in 2020, according to an interview on CBS News.

"I am not running for president. I am running for re-election to the Senate," the Connecticut Democrat said in an interview with CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett and Political Director Steve Chaggaris on "The Takeout" podcast. He said he will focus his energies on a 2018 run for re-election.

Murphy has been an outspoken critic of the Trump Administration, challenging everything from the president’s pick for Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State to the administration’s stance on immigration and crackdown on undocumented immigrants to the Afghanistan strategy to the plans to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. 

Murphy and other Connecticut elected officials have been fighting for stricter gun control laws in the years since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Murphy again called on Congress to act after 59 people were killed and more than 500 others were wounded at a country music festival in Las Vegas. 

He is also a champion for affordable health care, job creation, and education. He currently sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee.

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