New Jersey Republican Senate candidate Justin Murphy had one answer when asked what he’d tell President Trump to do about Iran: “Finish it.” No hesitation, no hedging, no focus-grouped non-answer. Just a straight shot from a U.S. Navy veteran who clearly didn’t get the memo that he’s supposed to be intimidated.
And now Booker is melting like butter. His next move could be on the way to unemployment and collecting welfare if his opponent knocks him out of the midterm election. It’s not like Cory Booker has any real world skills that anyone would find useful, so there’s that. And lose is exactly what Booker should do. Wouldn’t you rather have a Navy veteran running the state? Someone who signed up to protect the country is definitely a more pro-American choice than a lifelong politician who’s accomplished zilch.
Now back to the debate. Murphy was responding to moderator David Wildstein of the New Jersey Globe, who posed a simple hypothetical: if Trump called and said he’d do whatever Murphy wanted in Iran, what would the answer be? Murphy didn’t blink. “Finish that war in a positive manner,” he said.
“We can’t wait halfway through and decide we don’t want to do this anymore.” He went on to describe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as “a cancer on human existence,” laying out decades of murder, rape, torture, and exported terrorism before delivering his closing line: “Mr. President, put your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick some a** and get this done and done right.”
Cory Booker looks weaker than ever. New Jersey, please vote red and send this guy to the welfare line.
Booker has never accomplished a thing in his life.
Give the Navy veteran a chance to help lead your state into greatness, and end the liberal madness. pic.twitter.com/f4nW8Fr8em
— Frank (@drastic215x) October 12, 2026
That came right after incumbent Senator Cory Booker finished complaining that Trump “invaded Iran” and got America stuck in “another Middle East quagmire.” You know, standard Democrat stuff. Blame America, cuddle the status quo, ignore four decades of Iranian terror. Justin Murphy Iran debate comments
Murphy even took a moment to recall watching, as a young boy in 1979, radical Islamic terrorists storm the walls of the American embassy and hold 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. “Ever since November of ’79,” he said, “the IRGC in Iran has done nothing but export terror, murder, rape, oppression, and assassination to the region and to the world, and it’s time it stops. Four decades is enough.” Hard to argue with that, though Booker gave it his best shot.
Booker, while technically acknowledging Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, has spent his energy pushing a war powers resolution to force a troop withdrawal. He rallied a group called the “Senate Six” to gum up Senate business until top officials testified. The resolution eventually went down in flames, 47-53, after Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman broke with his party to help kill it. Nothing like watching the left eat itself.
Then there’s the money situation, which is genuinely absurd. Booker had $23 million cash on hand per late-June FEC filings. Murphy had $123. As in, one hundred and twenty-three dollars. Booker could buy Murphy’s entire campaign with the cash he finds in his couch cushions. Murphy, to his credit, isn’t running scared. “He does have a lot of money,” Murphy has said. I’d like to know how much of it came from inside New Jersey and how much came from outside.” Fair question, senator.
For good measure, Booker went on “Meet the Press” back in June and called both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “two failed world leaders,” adding, “Between Israel and America, we have two criminal presidents.” Because nothing says “I’m ready to represent New Jersey” like calling your own country’s president a criminal on national television.
New Jersey hasn’t sent a Republican to the U.S. Senate since 1972, so Murphy is definitely the underdog. But after a debate performance like that, with a Navy vet drawing a straight line from 1979 to today and telling Trump to finish the job, don’t be shocked if some Garden State voters start wondering whether $23 million and a Twitter account are really enough to keep Cory Booker’s seat warm.
