Dem Senator Admits Fox News Host Has His Party’s Strategy Nailed: ‘We Are Cooked’

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) admitted on Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s media strategy was outdated at best — and that Republicans, according to an assessment laid out by Fox News host Jesse Watters, had their number.

Watters raised the issue during a recent broadcast of “The Five” on Fox News, where he described in detail how information got to the people in the new conservative media ecosystem.

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Watters: We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign against the left…What you're seeing on the right is asymmetrical… Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it.. and by the time it reaches everybody, millions… pic.twitter.com/EccQutLW0J

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“We are waging a 21st-century information warfare campaign against the Left and they are using tactics from the 1990s,” Watters said. “They are holding tiny press conferences, tiny little rallies. They’re screaming into the ether on MSNBC. This is what you call top-down command and control. You get your talking points from a newspaper and you put it on the broadcast network and then it disappears.”

He went on to describe the different strategies currently being implemented on the Right — strategies developed in part because the Left has long had a stranglehold on legacy media outlets in the United States.

“What you’re seeing on the Right is asymmetrical. It’s like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it. And by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it. It’s free money. And we’re actually talking about expressing information. They are suppressing information,” Watters continued.

Murphy responded to the Fox News host in an X post, conceding that his assessment was correct and arguing that Democrats needed to find a way to break out of their old habits if they wanted to win.

“This is true. And until the left builds an infrastructure to confront this reality — and stops acting like political communication is still just buying millions of TV and digital ads every two years — we are cooked,” he said.

This is true. And until the left builds an infrastructure to confront this reality – and stops acting like political communication is still just buying millions of TV and digital ads every two years – we are cooked. https://t.co/U0ZMhFULTl

— Chris Murphy ???? (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 18, 2025