The Alaska senator praised former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ criticism of Trump’s response to nationwide protests as ‘necessary and overdue.’
Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters she’s “struggling” with whether to vote for President Trump in November while praising an op-ed written by Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in which he called the president a threat to the Constitution.... [+]
voting"no" on a cloture that advanced the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to a final vote on October 5, 2018. “I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time,” Murkowski told reporters when asked if she would vote to reelect Trump., in which he said Trump “tries to divide us,” as “true and honest and necessary and overdue.”
“When I saw Gen. Mattis’ comments yesterday I felt like perhaps we’re getting to the point where we can be more honest with the concerns we might hold internally and have the courage of our convictions and speak up,” she added. However, Murkowski affirmed that Trump is “our duly elected president” and said she would “continue to work with this administration.”
“I think right now as we are all struggling to find ways to express the words that need to be expressed appropriately, questions about who I’m going to vote for [or] not going to vote for I think are distracting at the moment,” she concluded.Murkowski has a long history of bucking her party, and Trump in particular. In 2010, she lost a primary challenge for her Senate seat, but mounted a successful write-in campaign in the general election.
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