Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trumpâs candidacy and the direction of her party, wonât rule out bolting from the GOP.
The veteran Alaska Republican, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and said she âabsolutelyâ would not vote for him.
âI wish that as Republicans, we had ⌠a nominee that I could get behind,â Murkowski told CNN. âI certainly canât get behind Donald Trump.â
The partyâs shift toward Trump has caused Murkowski to consider her future within the GOP. In the interview, she would not say if she would remain a Republican.
Asked if she would become an independent, Murkowski said: âOh, I think Iâm very independent minded.â And she added: âI just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.â
You know when youâre sick and pretty much bed-ridden, and you think âif only I wasnât sick, I would be working out today and doing such-and-such,â but then as soon as you feel okay again you donât actually do it or think about it until you physically canât again?
I feel like itâs like that. That doesnât mean you should work out while youâre sick. It just means that we need to remember when weâre well.
(To be clear, what Iâm saying is I get it and youâre right, but regardless we canât reasonably do it right now. But once we put fascism down, or if it wanes enough to make a reasonable go of it, we absolutely should remember and fix the voting system).
Pretty good analogy. Youâre not wrong, Iâm still mad about it. Weâll be our undoing. Feels like RomeâŚ