Trump Promises To Campaign Against Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski
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March 7, 2021Former President Donald Trump is making it clear he is not getting out of politics and will continue to be major player in GOP politics.
In a conversation with The Hill, Trump promised to campaign against Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Murkowski is up for reelection in 2022.
“I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski. She represents her state badly and her country even worse. I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be — in Alaska campaigning against a disloyal and very bad Senator,” Trump said in a statement to The Hill. “Her vote to advance radical left democrat Deb Haaland for Secretary of the Interior is yet another example of Murkowski not standing up for Alaska.”
The threat marks the latest indication that Trump plans to heavily insert himself into 2022 races across the country.
Murkowski was a thorn in Trump’s side throughout his presidency. She capped it off by voting to convict him after he left office.
Trump’s feud with Murkowski goes back to at least 2018. Murkowski voted against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court that year and said in 2020 that Trump should not have named a replacement of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after Republicans in 2016 declined to take up then-President Obama’s nominee to fill in a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year.
Getting Murkowski out will be no easy task. Murkowski was defeated in the primary in 2010 only to win via write-in. That is no easy feat. Her hold on Alaska, for whatever reason, is strong. Incumbents are always hard to defeat. The power of incumbency and name recognition is strong.
And under Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system, the top four vote-getters in an open primary will move on to the general election, meaning she won’t have the same partisan pressure on her as she did in 2010.
Beyond that, Murkowski is expected to get support from party organs. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, said in January he will back incumbent GOP senators against Trump-backed primary challengers.
Republicans have expressed concerns that challenges to incumbent lawmakers from the Trump wing of the GOP could endanger their chances in the midterms.
Hopefully, a well-spoken, bold, genuine conservative will rise up to challenge Murkowski. We need a real conservative vote in the Senate, not another RINO.
