Trump Hate Fuels Left’s Shift to Socialism and Jihad, GOP Senate Candidate Says

Pedro Rodriguez

•   October 13, 2026

The Democrats’ hatred for President Donald Trump has led them to embrace Islamic terrorism and socialism in an effort to defeat Republicans this November, the Republican nominee for New Jersey’s Senate seat told the Daily Signal.

“Their [Democrats] hate for Donald Trump is the only thing that is informing their decision making,” Justin Murphy told the Daily Signal. “Their hate for Donald Trump is more important to them than their love of this country, if they even have it.”

“It’s more important for them to make sure they do not … appear to their base that they’re working with President Trump, because that’s absolutely forbidden,” he continued.

Murphy said that hatred of the president is “keeping them isolated from the American people” and is “the only thing they are campaigning on.”

The candidate’s remarks come after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called his party a “big tent” that welcomes all voters.

Additionally, at least five members of the Democratic Socialists of America, a progressive organization that aims to dissolve constitutionally designated institutions such as the Senate, could be sworn into Congress in January.

“The Democrat Party today is no longer the party of FDR—the World War II, Depression-era Democrat. They’re no longer the party of JFK. It’s now the party of the DSA, and they’re no longer the party of the kind of little guy, the blue-collar worker, the northeastern Catholic voter,” Murphy added.

Murphy, using the example of the Republican Party’s rejection of David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard who tried to run for president as a Republican in the 1990s, contrasted his party’s handling of radical antisemites and extremists to that of the Democrats.

“We zipped up our tent, shut the door, threw him out of the party, and told him you get no name from the Republican Party and get no recognition. He was not allowed to run in our primaries, and we tossed him out of the party,” he said.

Murphy argued that if the Democratic Party was the party of “tolerance and civility” as is sometimes claimed, Democrat leaders would “do the same” toward their radical members.

Murphy’s opponent, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., has not yet condemned his party’s radical candidates.

Booker did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Pedro Rodriguez
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Pedro Boccalato Rodriguez-Aparicio is a journalism fellow at the Daily Signal.

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