{"id":1002576,"date":"2021-11-12T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1002576"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:13:31","slug":"establishment-republican-sen-lisa-murkowski-announces-reelection-bid-against-donald-trump-endorsed-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-republican-sen-lisa-murkowski-announces-reelection-bid-against-donald-trump-endorsed-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishment Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski Announces Reelection Bid Against Donald Trump-Endorsed Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Festablishment-republican-sen-lisa-murkowski-announces-reelection-bid-against-donald-trump-endorsed-opponent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1002576&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1197144085-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Establishment Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced Friday she will seek reelection in the 2022 midterms against a Donald Trump-endorsed opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Murkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-congress-lisa-murkowski-alaska-impeachments-824082f54f29c5a81739ab89eae504eb\">is<\/a> one of seven Republican senators who voted to impeach Trump in the aftermath of January 6. She is the only one out of the seven to have announced a reelection bid in 2022.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy heart is, and always has been, in Alaska, and that\u2019s why I am proud to announce my campaign for reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2022,\u201d Murkowski\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Murkowski will first have to defeat Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibaka in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>Though she has the backing of Sen. Rick Scott\u2019s (R-FL) National Republican Senatorial Committee, the senator will face an outsider happy to highlight&nbsp;Murkowski\u2019s leftist track record.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0056818181818\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski praised the House&#8217;s impeachment stunt against President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4u2B6u2E24\">https:\/\/t.co\/4u2B6u2E24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1350833728390623233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cShe voted to allow illegal immigrants to remain in the country, voted against commonsense federal judges, voted to keep Obamacare, and voted to remove President Trump from office even though his term had already expired,\u201d Tshibaka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/22\/exclusive-alaskas-kelly-tshibaka-launches-tv-ad-to-hype-donald-trumps-endorsement-of-her-over-lisa-murkowski\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of her record, Murkowski has been censured by the Republican Party of Alaska and instructed not to refer to herself as a Republican in the state any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After&nbsp;Murkowski voted to impeach Trump, the Alaskan GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-alaska-anchorage-lisa-murkowski-elections-abbf5443c98c3b8df52973e79deb4b44\">censured<\/a> her and declared \u201c[t]he party does not want Lisa Murkowski to be a Republican candidate\u201d in the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Murkowski is the daughter of a former Alaskan senator and governor. She was appointed by her father, Frank Murkowski, to fill his senate vacancy in 2002. In 2010, she narrowly won the Republican primary by running as a write-in.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Establishment Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced Friday she will seek reelection in the 2022 midterms against a Donald Trump-endorsed opponent. 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