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Stephanie Murphy

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  1. “Did they used to take my brother and I after their day jobs? They cleaned office buildings and banks at night. And so they would take us with them and help empty trash cans and things like that. But it always makes me feel a lot of pride in the sense that my parents showed up in America with just their bare hands. And they work so hard. And I find myself sometimes sitting in those boardrooms and in the places that I used to go help my parents clean. That's a story that can only happen in America, I think.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I did. And so America in the late 70s and 80s really didn't want to remember or have any reminders of the Vietnam War. And so obviously being a Vietnamese person for some people, it was a painful reminder of a time that they could put out of their minds. And I often remembered people would say to me, So where are you from? And I'd say Virginia or Fredericksburg or whatever and they'd say, no, where are you really from? And that had the undertone of, okay, well, what kind of Asian are you? But I felt pretty well, you know, I was comfortable in my hometown. I didn't fear people. I didn't, you know, I knew that I was different, but it didn't feel hostile. Maybe it's a better way to say it.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Think I did feel different, but I learned to distinguish between peoples like genuine curiosity about the unknown and any sort of more cynical approach to how people treated people bias as well.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Yes, we at this time, Spotsylvania County Fredericksburg was very homogenous. I was the only person of color in my elementary school. My parents worked really hard. They worked multiple jobs, but we lived in a trailer park and grew up in very much working class. And among a lot of working class Americans, I think that gave me perspective. It also, you know, my parents worked really hard, but they really wanted me to focus on my education because they always told me that my education was my pathway, the way in which I could make my life better than theirs.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yeah, and that tells you that the Republican Party has sort of lost its way from its policy positions. It's now just a personality driven purely by personality.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “From a policy perspective for the sake of immigrants, right? It was hard to negotiate with Democrats because they weren't willing to give anything when it came to immigration. And I feel like Democrats have kind of walked themselves into this corner where on immigration more is better because we believe in a diverse society. So they say more is better and then less is racist. And that's just too narrow of a box to approach complex issue like immigration in. And so that's on our side. And on the other side, I find that what they're doing right now, playing politics with a good solution that would help secure the border, would create some pathways, would address the humanitarian crisis. And that, you know, there are people who will say that presidential politics are the reason why they're not willing to move forward with”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Also, because when I was in Congress, we did pass a border supplemental with Trump in the White House at the time. And it was one of the bigger political fights. I think I was engaged in in my time in Washington. And I come at this both from the perspective of somebody who was a refugee and an immigrant, but I'm also worked at the Department of Defense and worked in national security and I believe that a country has an obligation to its citizens to secure its borders. We should know who and what comes across our borders. And so I think it's both a national security and a humanitarian issue with what's going on right now for Democrats too often we stake out positions that just aren't tenable.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “And so he sends his vice president Mondale to the United Nations. And Mondale's speechwriter, he writes a speech that basically reminds the world that they turned a blind eye in the 30s to Jewish refugees. And they didn't know how they were going to be received at the United Nations. But they get the Standing Ovation. a bunch of ally countries all increased their caps for the number of refugees they're going to take, including the United States, who had led the way there. And so my family and I were let in under the newly raised caps and sponsored by a Lutheran church in Virginia and they relocated us to southern like rural Virginia.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Actually, an act of political courage that paved the way for my parents to make it to the United States. So this is the late 70s receiving Southeast Asian refugees was polling negatively, I think like 65% of the American people didn't want to take any more refugees. And the Carter administration were watching this humanitarian disaster that was happening as people tried to flee by boat and they were called boat people, hundreds of thousands of people died at sea in their attempts to escape.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “And the risks that they took. But they were like so many other parents, right? There's just everyone's circumstances can be different, but parents will do just about anything to make sure that their children have a better life than they did.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “My mom, I think they didn't really have a whole lot of good choices. She had to help my brother get to shore. So, you know, and I think you have to imagine how awful things must have been for them to have taken that kind of risk with, you know, small children. I think I have incredible amounts of empathy when I see migrants and refugees. What must they have been facing that they decided to take that chance? And I think my parents always used to say, you know, they knew that we might not make the journey, but that maybe it was better for us to all die together in search of light and freedom than it was to live on in darkness. So I think about, you know, the bravery.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “And simply ran out of fuel. My dad was actually at the helm of the boat. He was the captain. And so I often say that his bravery wasn't quite matched by his logistics skills. So we are without fuel running low on food and water when a U.S. Navy ship found our boat and they at that time were given orders not to pick refugees up if their vessel was still seaworthy. And so they gave us food, fuel, and water and our vessel was still seaworthy. And so we made it to Malaysia. But when we get to Malaysia, Malaysia is done with refugees. So they tow this tugboat back out to international waters. And my dad captains us back in and he tells the men on the boat that they're going to stay and help him scuttle the ship. And the women and children, he was going to get in as close as he could to shore. And they should jump and swim.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “So I was six months old, and my brother was eight, and it was the aftermath of the Vietnam War. My parents were people who were likely targeted for persecution by the new Vietnamese government because they had worked for the US military and for the former South Vietnamese government. And so I think they were looking at the prospect of raising my brother and I in a country without freedoms where the government oppressed its people and really made a brave decision. They decided that they were going to escape by boat in the dead of night rather than to continue to live in that situation. And so we got on a boat with a couple dozen other Vietnamese people and got out to international”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “But yeah, so an unlikely story as to how I found myself in 2016 running for public office, you know, my family and I are refugees and immigrants from. No, and that's the story.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Yeah, I'm sure when you heard Stephanie Murphy, you didn't think an Asian woman with an Irish name. But I do think that that helped with my first poll. I had 6% name ID, and that couldn't have been somebody who actually knew me. I'm pretty sure they thought I was the local bar owner.”

    2024-02-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 566 — Stephanie Murphy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source