Sen. Chris Murphy

The real story is that we got into this mess with prescription drug prices that are so high because our politics is corrupt.

And the prescription drug companies have way too much control over Washington.

So don't just tell me your plan for lowering prescription drug costs.

Tell me your plan for knocking out the prescription drug industry's power in Washington.

Like, I need to know both things.

I mean, listen, I think inside the Democratic Party, there is an enormous hangover from

Barack Obama.

And I mean this, I'm gonna do this in a complimentary way to Obama, right?

So Obama lifted our party, right, into power.

And we did really important things with him.

He did not use this frame for the world, right?

A frame of corporate capture and an agenda of release from that capture.

He was more technocratic, right?

More market-based in his reforms.

And we got away with that as a Democratic Party because of the unique talent of Barack Obama as a messenger.

He was just somebody that we were never going to reproduce in our party as someone who just made folks feel better about government because he was in charge.

And what it exposed, though, in his absence is a lack of a narrative that the Democratic Party tells about who has power, who doesn't have power, and how we're going to fix that.

And so I do think our reliance on Barack Obama is kind of a savior for the party's messaging, exposed us as not having a coherent underlying message when we didn't have a uniquely talented political figure.

at the top.

Yeah, I think it's, again, I think it's only coming if the Democratic Party, as we head into this election, the 2028 election, makes the unrigging of our democracy a tentpole for our party's messaging, right?