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Trump Celebrates After Sen. Murkowski Indicates She May Not Run Again – ‘Great News’

President Donald Trump is in celebration mode right now after Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said that she has not decided if she will run again for reelection.

“Great news for the Republican Party!” Trump said in a statement that pointed to reports that there’s a chance Murkowski won’t run again.

“Senator Lisa Murkowski said she is ‘still weighing whether she will run again’ for the Senate in Alaska. In other words, there is a chance that she won’t run! Wouldn’t that be great?” Trump added, according to The Hill [1].

This came after Murkowski told reporters on Tuesday that she has not decided if she’ll run again, and that she’ll make that decision “when I make it.”

“I have been doing everything that a good incumbent does in terms of preserving my options, visiting with Alaskans, spending a lot of time, as much time on the ground as I can, and raising money,” Murkowski said, according to Roll Call [2].

Murkowski was censured by the Alaska Republican Party last month after she defied them by voting to impeach Trump back in February.

“If I can’t say what I believe that our president should stand for, then why should I ask Alaskans to stand with me?” Murkowski said at the time.

She had also admitted back in January that she did not vote for Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

“[I]f the Republican Party continues to be the party of Trump, I’m not quite sure where I fit,” she said, according to The Hill. [3]

The Republican establishment has stood by Murkowski, and last Friday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee announced support for her.

“She has been a powerful voice for Alaska’s interests,” read their statement, according to Yahoo News [4]. “We are laser focused on taking back the Senate majority and stopping the crazy socialist agenda of the Democrats.”

Murkowski already has a Republican challenger named Kelly Tshibaka, who already has a double-digit lead [5] on her in the polls.

This piece was written by James Samson on April 15, 2021. It originally appeared in LifeZette [6] and is used by permission.

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