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
âIf we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ⌠and we will deserve itâ
-Senator Lindsey Graham
Theyâve all deserved it for a long time and for a lot of things. Iâm pretty sure nobody in an elected position in DC today was there in 1964 when Goldwaterâs 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 theyâve 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 wasnât 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 âyou know thatâs the party of socialists and communists right?â And Iâm like âyeah the other party is that of the KKK.â
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 youâre too young to remember Goldwater. Remember Willie Horton? Remember Sarah Palin?
They keep on showing everyone there is no floor. Thatâs why David Frum warns that before Republicans reject conservatism, they will reject democracy.
And here we are.
â⌠And I will help.â
Important thing to note here is that he just meant they would be âdestroyedâ in the election - as long as Trump means they stay in power, he has no problem with him.