{"id":2205054,"date":"2024-03-24T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lisa-murkowski-leaves-open-possibility-of-leaving-republican-party\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:53:24","slug":"lisa-murkowski-leaves-open-possibility-of-leaving-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lisa-murkowski-leaves-open-possibility-of-leaving-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Murkowski hints at potential departure from Republican Party"},"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\">18<\/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%2Flisa-murkowski-leaves-open-possibility-of-leaving-republican-party%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=2205054&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--><h2>Senator Lisa\u2062 Murkowski Considers Leaving the\u200b Republican Party<\/h2>\n<p>Senator\u2064 Lisa Murkowski, representing Alaska, has taken a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comedian-tim-dillion-says-brittney-griner-needs-to-be-unbelievably-patriotic-if-america-bails-her-out\/\" title=\"Comedian Tim Dillion Says Brittney Griner Needs To Be Unbelievably Patriotic If America Bails Her Out\">bold stance<\/a> by declaring that she will not \u2063be endorsing former president Donald\u2064 Trump. \u2064This\u200b move has\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-says-florida-gop-chairman-should-step-aside-amid-sexual-assault-investigation\/\" title=\"DeSantis urges Florida GOP chairman to 'step down' amid sexual assault probe\">stirred speculation<\/a> about \u200dher allegiance\u200d to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI wish that \u200bas Republicans, we had \u2063\u2026 a\u2062 nominee that\u2062 I\u2064 could get behind,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murkowski expressed in an\u2062 interview\u2062 with CNN.\u200c <strong>\u201cI certainly can\u2019t get\u2063 behind Donald \u2062Trump.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-widens-war-on-junk-fees-says-us-consumers-tired-of-being-treated-as-suckers\/\" title=\"Biden expands fight against unfair fees, claims Americans fed up with being taken advantage of.\">significant\u200c shift<\/a>, Murkowski affirmed that she will not be casting her vote \u2064for Trump in the upcoming elections, leaving the door\u200d open\u2063 to the possibility of parting ways with the GOP.<\/p>\n<h3>Murkowski\u2019s Independent \u200dStance<\/h3>\n<p>Emphasizing her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aaron-rodgers-seems-to-make-his-endorsement-for-2024-presidential-election\/\" title=\"Aaron Rodgers hints at endorsing 2024 Presidential Election.\">independent mindset<\/a>, Murkowski remarked, \u200b <em>\u201cOh, I think I\u2019m very\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-board-dismisses-union-misconduct-complaints-following-biden-purge\/\" title=\"Labor Board Dismisses Union Misconduct Complaints Following Biden Purge\">independent-minded<\/a>.\u201d<\/em> She expressed \u2062her concerns by stating, <em>\u201cI just regret that our party\u2062 is seemingly becoming\u2063 a party\u200d of Donald Trump.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having served in the Senate since 2002, initially\u2063 appointed by her \u200bfather, former\u2062 governor Frank Murkowski, Lisa Murkowski emerged victorious in\u200c the 2022 reelection, defeating \u200ba\u200c primary candidate\u200c endorsed by Trump. This win secures her position \u200bin the\u200c Senate until \u2063the next presidential election in 2028.<\/p>\n<h3>Alaska&#8217;s Political Landscape<\/h3>\n<p>During\u2064 the 2020 \u2064election, \u2062Trump secured a\u2064 victory\u2063 in Alaska with 53% of the votes, surpassing\u2062 President \u2064Joe Biden \u200bwith 43%. Furthermore, in this year&#8217;s Alaska Republican primary, Trump dominated, grabbing\u2062 nearly \u200d88% of the votes,\u2062 outshining former South \u200bCarolina governor \u2063Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Murkowski&#8217;s contemplation of breaking away from the Republican Party adds \u200ca new chapter to Alaska\u2019s \u200dpolitical narrative, signaling \u2063potential\u2063 shifts in \u2062the state\u2019s political\u2062 dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) refuses to back ex-President Donald Trump. She now considers defecting from the Republican Party. Among seven Republicans who convicted Trump at his second impeachment trial, Murkowski won&#8217;t support him in the upcoming elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2205055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24039687879536-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24039687879536-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205054","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\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}