Trump to campaign against ‘disloyal’ GOP Sen Murkowski after she spoke about ‘struggling’ to support him in past
DONALD Trump has vowed to campaign against "disloyal" GOP Sen Lisa Murkowski after she "struggled" to support him in the past.
The said Murkowski - who has held her seat since 2002 - represents "badly" and he will not be endorsing her in her reelection bid next year.
Murkowski has been a longtime critic of Trump and was one of seven senators to vote to convict him in last month’s impeachment trial.
But of those seven senators, she is the only one to face reelection in 2022.
She also called on him to resign following the on January 6.
Trump has criticized the senator for advancing the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland to serve as interior secretary - saying it was an example of her "not standing up for Alaska".
And he vowed to make the 5,000-mile journey from his Mar-a-Lago resort in to Alaska to campaign against Sen. Murkowski.
In a statement, the former president said: "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.
"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 called the senator out during his speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend - along with the other Republicans who backed his impeachment.
Last month, Sen. Murkowski said she was aware that her critic of Trump and her vote to convict him on impeachment may damage her chances of reelection next year, but added she could not be afraid of that.
She said: "I know that my actions, my vote may have political consequences. And I understand that. I absolutely understand that. But I can't be afraid of that."
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The former president - who received 53 percent of the vote in Alaska in the 2020 election - already vowed to campaign against the senator's reelection last year after Murkowski said she was "struggling" to support him in his reelection because of the way he handled the George Floyd protests.
He tweeted in June: "Few people know where they’ll be in two years from now, but I do, in the Great State of Alaska (which I love) campaigning against Senator 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!"
