Trump vows to campaign for anyone with ‘a pulse’ against Lisa Murkowski

“Get any candidate ready, good or bad, I don’t care, I’m endorsing. If you have a pulse, I’m with you!” Trump tweeted.

Murkowski has broken with Senate Republicans at times, including voting against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

She said Thursday she appreciated Mattis’s comments.

“When I saw Gen. Mattis’s comments yesterday, I felt like perhaps we are getting to a point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold internally and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up,” she said.

“I was really thankful. I thought Gen. Mattis’s words were true and honest and necessary and overdue,” she said, adding that she may not support Trump’s reelection.

Mattis released a blistering statement on Wednesday, criticizing Trump’s handling of the protests across the country in response to the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes.

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote.

“When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens — much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside,” Mattis said. “We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”