Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on iTunes here. | Subscribe via Stitcher.Did Donald Trump just turn a freshman Democratic senator with an itchy Twitter finger into a presidential contender?Until last year, Chris Murphy was a serious-minded student of the U.S. Senate, a lawyerly freshman from Connecticut who, when elected in 2012, was the chamber’s youngest member and even now is still only 43 years old. He joined the Foreign Relations Committee, studied up on Russia and the fighting in Ukraine, and filibustered on the Senate floor in favor of gun control, his signature cause ever since the deadly massacre of …read more
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