Murkowski is one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second indictment, but is the only one of that group to face re-election next year.
Trump declared on Saturday that he would not endorse Murkowski “under any circumstances”.
“She represents her state badly and her country even worse,” he said in a statement to POLITICO. “I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be – in Alaska a campaign against a disloyal and very bad senator.”
The GOP is struggling internally with the best way to get Trump out of the White House, but still in control of a fiery political base and a fiery desire to remain a force in Republican politics. POLITICO Playbook reported on Saturday that Trump had sent letters to the RNC, NRSC and NRCC demanding that they stop his name and parable from raising funds without his permission, an insignificant indication of his dissatisfaction with the party apparatus.
The broad side against Murkowski came days after she voted to promote the nomination of President Deb Haaland (DN.M.) to serve as Home Secretary – the only Republican in the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee who did it. Trump cites the move as a recent example of the need to install someone else in Murkowski’s seat.
Murkowski was one of the few Republicans who criticized Trump in public from time to time, a position that made her a regular target of the former president.
Murkowski, who succeeded her father, Frank Murkowski, in the Senate, was also a difficult person for Republicans to sit. She managed to win as an enrollment candidate after losing a GOP by-election in 2010, and Alaska has since switched to a chosen electoral system that will punch candidates from all parties against each other in an open by-election, with the four best votes. food that penetrates after the general election
Barrasso also said he joined the Wyoming rep. Liz Cheney stands, who like Murkowski has become a leading target of Trump after she broke up with her party earlier this year to accuse him.
“I support her,” he said Sunday, noting “I do not entirely agree with her on the issue of accusation.”
Cheney has already thwarted an attempt by members of the Republican House, who were in line with Trump, to deprive her of her leadership position.