Sen. Lisa Murkowski is a lifelong Republican from a Republican family, but as the GOP continues to radicalize, stevebenen writes that her ties to her party appear to be loosening.
The Hill had an interesting report this week on Republican senators who are getting a little uncomfortable with the messages they’re receiving from the GOP base. Evidently, their constituents have all kinds of weird ideas — about the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 attack, the FBI, and the CDC, among other things — and it’s left some senators with an uneasy feeling.
The Alaska Republican — who faced right-wing challengers in two recent re-election campaigns, and had to run a write-in campaign in 2016 after losing a GOP primary — went on to say, “You have people who felt some allegiance to the party that are now really questioning, ‘Why am I [in the party?]’”
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