Democrat says Fox News host Jesse Watters is right about party's media strategy

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) agreed with Fox News host Jesse Watters, who argued this week the Democratic media messaging machine is no match for its counterpart on the right.

"We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign against the left," Watters said on an episode of "The Five" this week. "And they're using tactics from the 1990s."

"What you're seeing on the right is asymmetrical," Watters continued. "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."

Murphy said Watters has a point and shared a clip of the host's comments with his social media followers on Tuesday.

"This is true," the senator wrote in a social media post. "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."

President Trump's victory last November came as his campaign rebuffed traditional news outlets in favor of appearances and interviews with social media influencers, podcasters and other online content creators.

Trump ally Elon Musk has used the social platform X, which he owns, to promote conservative commentators, boost the presidents agenda and share jokes and memes mocking Democrats and media outlets.

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