Former President Donald Trump will not be supporting Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s bid for a fourth term.
The former president announced on Saturday that he’ll be traveling to the Last Frontier State to campaign against Murkowski ahead of her 2022 reelection bid, according to Politico.
“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,” he said. “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.”
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Murkowski, a centrist, has long been willing to split from the former commander in chief, as evidenced by some of her recent votes in the Senate. The Alaskan voted for Trump’s conviction last month on the House’s impeachment article of inciting an insurrection. The former president was ultimately acquitted.
Murkowski also voted to confirm President Biden’s nominee for secretary of the interior, Deb Haaland, despite her opposition to fossil fuel development during her time as a member of the House, which earned the ire of many in the GOP.
Trump criticized Murkowski’s vote to confirm Haaland, saying it was “yet another example of Murkowski not standing up for Alaska.”
Despite Trump’s rebuke of the Alaska senator, she still has the support of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“Yeah, absolutely, we support Sen. Murkowski,” he said. “We support all of our Republican incumbents. She’s in very strong shape in her home state of Alaska. There’s nobody that’s gonna come close to beating Lisa Murkowski when she runs for reelection next year.”
Trump gave his vision for the GOP during his first public post-presidency speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February and also targeted the members of his own party who supported his second impeachment.
“Get rid of them all,” Trump said after reading the list of names.
Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee demanding that they stop using his name and likeness on fundraising emails and merchandise, a spokesperson for Trump confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
Trump recently made his first endorsement of a GOP challenger to a political foe, announcing his support for Max Miller, one of his former White House advisers, who is taking on Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a two-term congressman who was 1 of 10 House Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching the former president.
“Max Miller is a wonderful person who did a great job at the White House and will be a fantastic Congressman. He is a Marine Veteran, a son of Ohio, and a true PATRIOT,” Trump said in his Feb. 26 endorsement. “Current Rep. Anthony Gonzalez should not be representing the people of the 16th district because he does not represent their interest or their heart. Max Miller has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”
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Trump was first impeached in December 2019 on two Ukraine-related charges but then acquitted in the GOP-majority Senate.
Representatives for Murkowski and Trump did not immediately return requests for comment.
