During a debate for the New Jersey governor’s race Tuesday, Democratic candidate Phil Murphy equivocated his Republican opponent taking campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association to Democrats taking money from disgraced producer and sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein.
In response to a moderator’s question, Murphy claimed he hasn’t gotten “one dime” from Weinstein, who has donated more than $700k to Democratic campaigns since 1991 and threw not one, but two fundraisers for failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton – long after he’d settled lawsuits with multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment and abuse.
“That’s outrageous. I haven’t taken one dime from this guy,” Murphy claimed Tuesday, before suggesting the NRA's contributions to his GOP opponent, Kim Guadagno, are just as dirty.
“So I want to take this opportunity to say the Republican Governors Association, which has run a lot of ads against me, have gotten at least $60,000 from her friends at the NRA this year, and I find that unconscionable, particularly since what happened over the past nine days,” Murphy said.
Let’s take a moment and put this in perspective, here: Murphy just compared accepting political donations from a group made up of more than 5 million Americans that promotes and protects Americans’ constitutional Second Amendment rights to taking money from a man who sexually abused countless women to the apparent knowledge of half of Hollywood.
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