Is Lisa Murkowski going to leave the GOP?

[Cattledog]

She said she is thinking about it.

[beachbumbob]

1. the outcome is shaking out and provides cover to several senators and congresspeople to do

a party switch NOW

[sweetloukillbot]

4. She'll go independent. She ain't becoming a Dem. nt

[d_b]

2. Do it, Lisa

[msongs]

3. it's like she knows nothing about what's happenned the past 4 days nt

[Cetacea]

6. here

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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that Donald Trump should resign the presidency immediately and that if the Republican Party cannot separate itself from Trump, she isn’t certain she has a future with the party.

“I want him to resign. I want him out. He has caused enough damage,” Murkowski, R-Alaska, said during an interview from her small Capitol office, steps away from the Senate chambers that were invaded by pro-Trump rioters on Wednesday.

“I think he should leave. He said he’s not going to show up. He’s not going to appear at the at the inauguration. He hasn’t been focused on what is going on with COVID. He’s either been golfing or he’s been inside the Oval Office fuming and throwing every single person who has been loyal and faithful to him under the bus, starting with the vice president. He doesn’t want to stay there. He only wants to stay there for the title. He only wants to stay there for his ego. He needs to get out. He needs to do the good thing, but I don’t think he’s capable of doing a good thing,” she said.

Trump to blame for riot, Murkowski says

Murkowski said that while “there may have been many, many, many, many good Americans who came to Washington, D.C., because they felt strongly in support of this president,” Trump incited them to storm the Capitol after a speech near the Washington Monument.

Even before Election Day, the president refused to say whether he would accept the election results, Murkowski said, and then tried to overturn the results.

“I will attribute it to the president, who said, even after his vice president told him that morning, ‘I do not have the constitutional authority to do what you have asked me to do. I cannot do it. I have to protect and uphold the Constitution.’ Even after the vice president told President Trump that, he still told his supporters to fight. How are they supposed to take that? It’s an order from the president. And so that’s what they did. They came up and they fought and people were harmed, and injured and died,” Murkowski said.

[msongs]

7. and all her intellectual awareness does nothing to make her in doing the right thing nt

[Renew Deal]

5. Don't know, but I think her and Sasse are on board for impeachment.

Probably Romney too. Need 13 more.

[Amishman]

8. Doubtful, she just talks about things based on public opinion

She is the weathervane of the Senate. She'll point left or right, but never actually goes anywhere

[LizBeth]

9. I think if she did, she would do it instead of talking about it. I would like for her too.

I think she would ultimately like being a part of the Democratic prty and could easily adjust.