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RINO senator invokes Ronald Reagan to explain bucking Trump

December 13, 2024 | | Print Article

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) invoked the name of President Ronald Reagan to insert some distance between herself and President-elect Donald Trump.

The so-called Republican lawmaker, who has boasted that she didn’t vote for Trump in 2016, 2020, or 2024, said at a Washington, D.C. event on Thursday that she feels “more comfortable” with the no-party label over being associated with a GOP supporting Trump.

“I don’t think I’ve made any secret of the fact that I’m more of a Ronald Reagan Republican than I am a Trump Republican,” Murkowski said in a discussion hosted by the centrist group No Labels.

“And some would say, ‘Well, you aren’t really a Republican at all.’ And I said, ‘You can call me whatever you want to call me,’” Murkowski added.

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“I’m not attached to a label, I’d rather be that ‘no label.’ I’d rather be that person that is just known for trying to do right by the state and the people that I serve, regardless of party, and I’m totally good and comfortable with that,” the Alaska RINO continued.

“In fact, I think I am more comfortable with that identity than in an identity as a Republican, as a party person,” she added.

At one point, Murkowski, who has served in the Senate since 2003, clarified that she is “still a Republican” and has “never shed my party label.”

“We’ve got a system in the Senate where there are two sides of the aisle, and I have to sit on one side or I have to sit on the other,” added the senator who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 events at the Capitol.

In a telling stance, many Democrats look to Murkowski and fellow centrist Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) to join some of their GOP colleagues in blocking some of Trump’s Cabinet picks. The Alaska lawmaker, long a critic of the incoming president, predicted “It’s going to be hard in these next four years.”

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She claimed the Trump administration’s “approach is going to be: Everybody toe the line. Everybody line up. We got you here, and if you want to survive, you better be good. Don’t get on Santa’s naughty list here, because we will primary you.”

Murkowski was reportedly one of the four senators who could not back former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) as Trump’s pick for attorney general.

“I think we’re getting a little bit of a preview now of what it is going to mean to be allegiant to party, and I don’t think that is going to help us as a Republican Party,” she said Thursday. “I think it’s going to energize and charge up the Democrats.”

Murkowski’s remarks and her “no party” stance earned her plenty of stinging commentary on social media.

“What a truly awful, self-aggrandizing politician,” the Mark Levin Show account posted.

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