{"id":1115093,"date":"2021-12-13T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115093"},"modified":"2021-12-13T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:28:49","slug":"murkowskis-primary-challenger-tshibaka-unloads-on-mcconnell-says-she-wont-support-him-as-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/murkowskis-primary-challenger-tshibaka-unloads-on-mcconnell-says-she-wont-support-him-as-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski\u2019s Primary Challenger Tshibaka Unloads On McConnell, Says She Won\u2019t Support Him As Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fmurkowskis-primary-challenger-tshibaka-unloads-on-mcconnell-says-she-wont-support-him-as-leader%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=1115093&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"46.021591871296\">\n<p>GOP primary challenger Kelly Tshibaka said Monday that she would not support Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to lead Senate Republicans if she wins her election in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Tshibaka, who is challenging Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski with the backing of former President Donald Trump, said in a statement that McConnell was responsible for repeatedly helping President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitch McConnell has repeatedly bailed out Joe Biden, giving him gifts of Senate votes, which are the only things keeping the Biden administration on life support,\u201d Tshibaka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellyforak.com\/post\/kelly-tshibaka-statement-on-mitch-mcconnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>, attaching a video to her recent appearance on Steve Bannon\u2019s \u201cWar Room\u201d podcast. \u201cAs an example, after rescuing Biden with the last debt ceiling increase, McConnell said he would never do it again. But he just did, and he had Lisa Murkowski\u2019s help in doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tshibaka singled out McConnell\u2019s willingness to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/09\/senate-clears-way-democrats-raise-debt-ceiling-agreement-mcconnell-schumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allow Democrats to raise the debt ceiling<\/a> on their own instead of forcing them to attach it to their reconciliation bill, describing the fights in Congress as \u201cpolitical elites pitted against real Americans.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/12\/lisa-murkowski-donald-trump-vocal-republican-critics-announces-reelection-bid-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Lisa Murkowski, One Of Trump\u2019s Most Vocal GOP Critics, Announces Reelection Bid In Alaska)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7320042\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7320042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Lisa Murkowski walks through the Capitol in October. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tshibaka\u2019s statement mirrors those from Trump in recent days criticizing McConnell for his not threatening a nationwide debt default for political leverage. Trump has issued two statements since the weekend began <a href=\"https:\/\/saveamerica.nucleusemail.com\/amplify\/v\/FPPEGjmZE4?hids=zNYhv5A&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ncl_amplify&amp;utm_campaign=20211210-statement_by_donald_j_trump_45th_president_of_the_united_states_of_america&amp;utm_content=ncl-7gGMFMk9kB&amp;_nlid=7gGMFMk9kB&amp;_nhids=zNYhv5A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slamming<\/a> the Senate Republican leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/saveamerica.nucleusemail.com\/amplify\/v\/WrRxDXjVFz?hids=ZWaUw4D&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ncl_amplify&amp;utm_campaign=20211213-statement_by_donald_j_trump_45th_president_of_the_united_states_of_america&amp;utm_content=ncl-NJaRAjw8GT&amp;_nlid=NJaRAjw8GT&amp;_nhids=ZWaUw4D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accusing<\/a> him of \u201cgiving the Democrats victory on everything.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/28\/lisa-murkowski-buck-party-criticize-donald-trump-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Lisa Murkowski Is Not Afraid To Buck The Party Line Or Criticize Trump. Could It Cost Her In 2022?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Murkowski is running for her fourth term, but it is the first time she is on the ballot with Alaska\u2019s new ranked-choice voting method, which allows voters to list their preferred candidates in order instead of choosing just one. The state\u2019s senior senator has also been tough to unseat in the past; she lost her primary in 2010 only to win the general election as a write-in candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP primary challenger Kelly Tshibaka said Monday that she would not support Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to lead Senate Republicans if she wins her election in 2022.Tshibaka, who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}