Alaska GOP Turns On Murkowski After Impeachment Vote, Says It Will Recruit a Primary Challenger: Report
Another Republican senator has been formally rebuked for voting to convict former President Donald Trump on the charge of “incitement of insurrection.” On Saturday, the Alaska Republican Party moved to censure Sen. Lisa…
Another Republican senator has been formally rebuked for voting to convict former President Donald Trump on the charge of “incitement of insurrection.”
On Saturday, the Alaska Republican Party moved to censure Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) after she voted to convict Trump in last month’s impeachment trial, the Anchorage Daily News reports.
The paper notes that according to party rules, a censure is “an official rebuke and disapproval.”
However, that apparently does not go far enough for the party.
The censure resolution reads that the party “will hereby recruit a Republican Party challenger to oppose and prohibit Senator Murkowski from being a candidate in any Republican primary to the extent legally permissible.”
Kris Warren, the author of the resolution said in a statement, “We’re looking for somebody else to be our U.S. Senator in 2022, and somebody who will be more in line with the Republican philosophy.”
He added, “There’s a number of issues that the party has had with Sen. Murkowski for the last several years which really culminated in the conviction vote of former President Trump.”
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