Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t 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 “absolutely” would not vote for him.
“I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind,” Murkowski told CNN. “I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.”
The party’s 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: “Oh, I think I’m very independent minded.” And she added: “I just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.”
They’ve all deserved it for a long time and for a lot of things. I’m pretty sure nobody in an elected position in DC today was there in 1964 when Goldwater’s clique inside the GOP turned it anti-civil rights and pro-Southern Strategy, but every elected Republican in DC today knew that had happened and signed up anyway
The Republican party is the disease that needs curing*, everything they’ve done are just worsening symptoms of that disease
*For the record, I think violence would be an ineffective and self-defeating course of treatment
This mf spittin.
I wasn’t even old enough to vote but was stumping for a candidate many years ago, a Democrat, and an older voter rebuffed me while walking into the polling place, fine, but then he said “you know that’s the party of socialists and communists right?” And I’m like “yeah the other party is that of the KKK.”
Not all Republicans are Klan but all Klan are Republicans. And I keep waiting for the day the GOP will kick these fools to the curb but every year they go further to the right. Fine, maybe you’re too young to remember Goldwater. Remember Willie Horton? Remember Sarah Palin?
They keep on showing everyone there is no floor. That’s why David Frum warns that before Republicans reject conservatism, they will reject democracy.
And here we are.