GOP's Murkowski is 'Struggling' to Vote For Trump Over Protest Response

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, offered stinging criticism on Thursday of President Donald Trump's brazen response to the racial justice protests taking the country by storm.

The commander-in-chief's decision to use military forces to corral protests — some violent — on the streets of the nation's capital and the threat to deploy armed troops on U.S. soil across the nation has left her tussling internally over whether she can continue supporting the president.

"I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time," Murkowski said, according to a Capitol Hill pool report. "I think you know that, I didn't support the president in the initial election and I work hard to try and make sure that I'm able to represent my state well, that I'm able to work with any administration and with any president."

Murkowski, whose moderate political stances have led her to occasionally be a toss-up vote among her GOP colleagues, said she was "thankful" for the searing rebuke that Trump's former secretary of defense, James Mattis, offered. The respected Marine general, who left the Trump administration in 2018 over his opposition to the president's policy with Syria, described his former boss on Wednesday as a threat to the Constitution and a leader who was attempting to pit the country's own citizens against one another.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/gops-murkowski-is-struggling-to-vote-for-trump-over-protest-response/ar-BB152KzV?li=BBnb7Kz

Then don't vote for him. How hard is that?

[msongs]

1. maybe trump can send her a few bags of cash so she feels better about this nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. You could wait until he kills a few million of us, then you could come out against him.

Of course you can live with the fact that you might have been able to prevent that.

[grumpyduck]

3. Smelling the wind.

Put up or shut the fuck up.

[JDC]

4. Sounds like she's got a pork project in play somewhere

Creating a little leverage for herself.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Senator, that "struggling" feeling is known to the rest of us as a conscience.

Kind of like a "Spidey Sense", it tingles when you are doing something wrong. It's your own Check Engine light that tells you if you don't make corrections you are putting everyone at risk.

Surrender to it. It is your friend. It is a friend to all of us.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. When was the last time she was

in Alaska? Bet it has been months. Her main hang out is Massachusetts just like her Daddy.

[maveric]

7. She'll vote for him regardless of what she's saying right now.

Just like Collins will.

[handmade34]

8. no thinking human

has to struggle with that option...