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MURPHY: "I would say that if there is an ascendancy of the conversation around socialism, it's one that is in part manufactured by the Republicans as a tactic in the 2020 election, as opposed to it being a true conversation that it somehow dividing the Democratic caucus. As I've said, the Democratic caucus, on a whole my colleagues and I believe in our capitalist system, we believe in making it better. But we have to make sure that we don't allow the Republicans to weaponize this word and try to pain the party in an irresponsible way. They're doing as much to normalize the conversation around socialism as the handful of Democratic members who embrace those policies."