Murkowski Considers Leaving the Republican Party

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) told the Anchorage Daily News that if the Republican Party cannot separate itself from Donald Trump, she isn’t certain she has a future with the party.

When asked if she would become an independent, she said: “Well, you know, there’s a lot of people who actually thought that I did that in 2010, think that I became an independent. I didn’t have any reason to leave my party in 2010. I was a Republican who ran a write-in campaign and I was successful. But I will tell you, if the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me.”