GOP's Murkowski says she's struggling with supporting Trump
Source: AP
GOP’s Murkowski says she’s struggling with supporting Trump
Posted: Jun 4, 2020 / 01:49 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 4, 2020 / 01:49 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski acknowledged Thursday that she’s “struggling” over whether she can support President Donald Trump given his handling of the virus and race crises shaking the United States.
Murkowski, long a critic of the president’s, told reporters in Washington that she was thankful for the example set the night before by retired Gen. James Mattis. Trump’s former secretary of defense, who resigned in 2018, broke his silence Wednesday with a blunt rebuke of the president’s leadership.
She called it “necessary and overdue.”
“Perhaps we’re getting to the 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,” Murkowski said. Asked whether she can still support Trump, she replied, “I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time.” But she said she’d continue to try to work with his administration.
Murkowski’s remarks were an acknowledgment of the ongoing choice Republicans are forced to make about whether, and for how long, to support Trump when his words and actions so often conflict with their values and goals. Trump has responded to the police killing of George Floyd by calling for more “law and order,” rather than addressing at any length the racial injustice that lies at the heart of the unrest. ...................................
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time will tell come Nov 3
Edit to ADD:
Murkowski Praises Mattis for Speaking Out, Says She’s ‘Struggling’ over Whether to Back Trump in Election
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/murkowski-praises-mattis-for-speaking-out-says-shes-struggling-over-whether-to-back-trump-in-election/
By Zachary Evans
June 4, 2020 1:10 PM
Sen. Lisa Murkowski arrives back from a break during the Trump impeachment trial in Washington, D.C., January 31, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
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Murkowski made the admission after praising former defense secretary James Mattis’s criticism of Trump’s performance.
“We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership,” Mattis told the Atlantic on Wednesday. Murkowski said Mattis’s remarks were “necessary and long overdue.”
“I felt like perhaps we are getting to a point where we can be more honest with the concerns we might hold internally,” Murkowski said.
When asked whether she still supported Trump, the senator replied, “I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time.”
“Questions about who I’m going to vote for, or not going to vote for, I think are distracting at the moment,” she added.
Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah), a frequent Trump critic, also praised Mattis’s comments without explicitly endorsing them.
“[Mattis] expressed his opinion and it was very powerful and it was a stunning letter,” Romney told the Huffington Post. “He’s an American patriot with extraordinary service and sacrifice and great judgement.”
Murkowski’s statements come at the same time that Joe Biden has seen a continuing rise in support. A Monmouth poll released on Wednesday recorded 52 percent support for Biden in the general election nationwide compared with 41 percent support for Trump. Biden’s 11-point lead is up from the 3-point lead he held in the same poll in March, when the former vice president had all but defeated Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in the Democratic primary race.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during a virtual Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)
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in caucus meetings and vote "NO" for whatever BunkerBoy and Moscow Mitch want next!
Other than that, get out - join the "other side" - or STFU!!!!!! 
Ask for a bigger check and shut the fuck up?
You obviously bought POS!
You are STILL "struggling" with this? By NOW??????? I beg your pardon??? WHAT "struggle"?
This is something you're still "struggling" with? Seriously???????
You haven't seen enough by now?
You haven't heard enough by now?
And you haven't noticed the ripple effect of all this by now?
You haven't noticed the "down ballot" of all this - that's now playing out in many many forms?
What - you just waking up or something?
How is it that, FIVE months til the next election, you're still "struggling" with what the right thing to do is, here? What the right thing to do WAS - at the very least by the end of year one of this nightmare. But we've been through almost a full four years of this by now. And you're still "struggling" with what keeps smacking you in the face?
She's struggling, and Susan Collins is concerned, albeit deeply. This got old 2 years ago. 
...get back in the Republican cesspool with trump...
...we don't want any Republican stragglers or outliers...
...have a good day...
