Based on this story at the CNN website, Senator Lisa Murkowski could be a real wild card in the senate next term, or even this remaining term. Seems she, being one of the R senators that voted for impeachment, has not changed her mind about TFG.
“I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind,” Murkowski told CNN. “I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.”
The article went on to say:
The party’s shift toward Trump has caused Murkowski to consider her future within the GOP. In the interview, she would not say if she would remain a Republican.
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Pressed on if that meant she might become an independent, Murkowski said: “I am navigating my way through some very interesting political times. Let’s just leave it at that.”
The article closed with this:
“I don’t think that it can be defended,” Murkowski said. “What happened on January 6 was … an effort by people who stormed the building in an effort to stop an election certification of an election. It can’t be defended.”
If she did bolt the party that could throw a ringer into the senate control calculations, ESPECIALLY if TFG should win. I doubt she’d want to make it easy for him and his cronies to run roughshod over the constitution. It will be interesting to watch how this one plays out, but what is really needed is people like her actively campaigning against TFG and FOR Biden.