Former President Donald Trump pledged to travel nearly 5,000 from his home in Florida to Alaska to campaign against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in 2022, when she seeks reelection.
Murkowski, who has been in the Senate for nearly two decades, was one of seven Senate Republicans to vote last month to convict Trump in his impeachment trial.
“I will not be endorsing, under any circumstances, the failed candidate from the great State of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski. She represents her state badly and her country even worse. I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be — in Alaska campaigning against a disloyal and very bad Senator,” Trump said in a statement to The Hill.
Trump also blasted Murkowski for announcing that she will support President Joe Biden’s nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) to serve as Secretary of the Interior. “Her vote to advance radical left democrat Deb Haaland for Secretary of the Interior is yet another example of Murkowski not standing up for Alaska.”
Trump has battled Murkowski since 2018, when she declined to vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.
“In his first endorsements since leaving office, Trump has mostly backed incumbent lawmakers who also enjoy establishment support,” the Hill reported. “However, he’s put sitting lawmakers on notice that he could also fight for their defeats if he believes they have been insufficiently supportive of him or his agenda — with his threat against Murkowski serving as a reminder that incumbency is no protection alone against a Trump challenge.”
“Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First. We want brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership,” Trump said in a statement last month.
While Trump had been mostly quiet since leaving office Jan. 20, he reemerged last week, sending out several statements.
In one statement, Trump sought to explain why the GOP lost two runoff elections in Georgia, thus losing control of the U.S. Senate.
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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