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By: Christian Stör
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A picture from other times: US Senator Lisa Murkowski gives a speech in front of the White House on December 20, 2017.
She is flanked by Donald Trump (left), Mike Pence (right behind Trump) and Republican members of Congress.
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The primaries in the USA prove one thing above all: the Republicans are a Trump party.
A senator is now making a critical statement.
Washington, DC – Lisa Murkowski has had enough.
The senator from Alaska served the Republicans loyally for a long time, but now that is no longer possible for her.
The reason for her frustration also has a name: “I regret that our party seems to be becoming a party of Donald Trump,” said the 66-year-old in an interview with the TV channel
CNN
.
She wished that the Republicans had a candidate in the US election in November that she could support.
In any case, she has closed the Donald Trump chapter for herself.
“Under no circumstances” will she vote for him in the presidential election.
She supported Trump's rival Nikki Haley in the party's internal primaries.
Republican Murkowski no longer wants to have anything to do with Trump
Trump has long since secured the votes to be nominated for the presidential election.
The Republican candidate will not be officially chosen until the party conference in July.
But it cannot be assumed that Trump could stumble along the way.
Even the many charges and lawsuits that Trump has to contend with in the election year don't bother the Republicans.
But Murkowski no longer wants to have anything to do with a Trump party.
That's why she's now even thinking about leaving the party.
“I’m navigating some very interesting political times,” she said when asked whether she could imagine becoming a non-party politician.
“Let’s just leave it at that.”
Republicans are almost unanimously behind Trump
Murkowski was first elected to the Senate in 2002 to represent Alaska.
She is considered a moderate Republican who has often made critical comments about Trump.
After the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, she was one of only seven Republican members in the Senate to vote for Trump's impeachment.
Murkowski emphasized again that what happened back then cannot be defended.
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She also commented on Trump's tirade about internal Jewish criticism of the war in Israel.
“Every Jewish person who votes for Democrats hates their religion,” Trump said in an interview.
That was just an “incredibly wrong and terrible statement,” said Murkowski.
But she is largely alone in her opinion; the overwhelming majority of Republicans still support Trump – come what may.
(cs)