Kelly puts the COW back in Murkowski.
Posted on 04/12/2021 6:01:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul is sounding the alarm on two Republican senators who are, as he claims, “lying” to conservative voters.
While delivering remarks at the Save America Summit in Florida, Paul called for GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins to be “ousted” because they are a “problem” for the party.
“This is our problem,” Paul started.
“Seven Republicans voted to keep Obamacare. You remember John McCain doing it,” he said. “But here’s the thing: this is our problem.”
He continued: “We know the Democrats want to have socialized medicine and nationalized health care. But Republicans say they’re for it, we got to keep them honest. And you got to send home the ones that lie to you.”
Collins won re-election in 2020 and will not face voters again until 2026.
Murkowski, however, is up for re-election in 2022 and already has a formidable Republican primary challenge.
Republican Alaskan Kelly Tshibaka announced she will be challenging Senator Lisa Murkowski in the 2022 Senate primary after Murkowski was censured by the Republican Party for voting in favor of impeaching Trump last year.
Now, a new poll reveals that Murkowski is losing to Tshibaka by double digits.
A poll conducted by Cygnal found that Tshibaka has a 15 point lead on Murkowski, with 33.6 points compared to the senator’s 18.8 percent.
Democrat Al Gross polls at 17.6 percent and Alaska Independence Party John Howe polls at 5.7 percent, and an additional 21.1 percent of voters are undecided at this time.
Murkowski’s popularity has plummeted since she voted to impeach Trump, with only 10 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of her.
A whopping 87 percent of Republicans said they had an unfavorable view of her.
Meanwhile, 61 percent of Trump voters approve of Tshibaka, 61 percent of Republicans approve of her, and 59 percent of conservatives view her in a positive light.
“Lisa Murkowski is in a weak position as an incumbent could possibly find themselves in. A strong Republican candidate is poised to defeat Murkowski. Kelly Tshibaka is that candidate,” Brock McCleary, the vice president of Cygnal, wrote of this poll.
The Alaska Republican Party has voted to censure Republican Lisa Murkowski and will recruit a challenger to run against her in next year’s election.
The Republican State Central Committee voted in favor of the censure during a meeting in Anchorage after district-level officials passed a series of similar resolutions.
Kris Warren, the author of the resolution said in a statement, “We’re looking for somebody else to be our U.S. Senator in 2022, and somebody who will be more in line with the Republican philosophy.”
He added, “There’s a number of issues that the party has had with Sen. Murkowski for the last several years which really culminated in the conviction vote of former President Trump.”
Warren slammed Murkowski for her criticism of Trump, saying: “She’s repeatedly spoken out against President Trump over the years in spite of all the great accomplishments he had that helped the country and certainly helped Alaska.”
When Trump spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference recently, he announced that he would be campaigning against Murkowski in the 2022 Alaska GOP primary.
“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,” he said.
Murkowski needs to be jettisoned like Sessions.
When Collins go, the seat will go Democrat, just as Olympia Snowe’s seat shifted parties. Maine will not elect a conservative Republican.
RE: When Collins go, the seat will go Democrat,
I wonder how the GOP is going to oust Collins... she was just elected and we’ll have to wait till 2026 to get rid of her unless they do something.
The GOP can oust anyone from the party, not the Senate.
Probably not very smart to oust one of time he senators from the Republican Party when she isn’t up for reelection for six years. At least she caucuses with Republicans now
RE: The GOP can oust anyone from the party, not the Senate.
Well, doing this will only ensure that Collins becomes Democrat. Not sure if this a bad thing. At least it does away with the hypocrisy of making people believe she is a Republican.
“Collins won re-election in 2020 and will not face voters again until 2026...Murkowski, however, is up for re-election in 2022 and already has a formidable Republican primary challenge.”
Murkowski is going to have a ‘fun time’ keeping her seat. Her problems are two-fold - Republicans are FED UP with her, while there aren’t enough Democrats to again make her win. Once Trump decided it was time for her to go back to Soldontna (or wherever the hell she’s from), her days were numbered, and now those numbers are running out.
Collins...why waste his time - no way to remove her, and even if removed, who takes her place - a flaming Democrat or something? Does that make life better for us? Tough question (for some here), so think about it.
Meanwhile, The Turtle stated last week he will be putting the full force of his NRSC and PAC money behind Murkowski.
This particular election will be the Canary in the Coal Mine for the future of the Republican Party. This is one battle we must win to send the Globalist Bush League RINOs their time is over. They are The Whigs.
If the republicans don’t oust even biden.. they are lacking !
where in this world is it okay to seat a president under the conditions as they are now. in our history how can they give a crazy biden that seat .. knowing it was rigged and he being out of knowledge on where he is.. both in physical position and brain waves.
everyone knows its crazy and dangerous!!!
Yes indeed. The democrats have Manchin who they want to rid themselves of, but know they will lose the seat. We have the same problem with Snowe. However, Murkowski makes zero sense. This should be a republican seat. I know there was some business with a write in when she lost primary, but the question is can she be purged from the party now and keep the senate seat?
Romney too!
Murkowski lost her reelection primary once, ran as a write in independent & won. Like gum on your shoe, she is hard to get rid of.
You can bet Cocaine Mitch will pour lots of big corporate lobbyist money into Murkow’s campaign.
I have to agree with you.
Now is not the time for Collins or Murkowski to be jettisoned.
Let the primary election give them the boot.
With the Senate this tight will really can’t afford to lose a single seat to in-fighting.
I won’t be surprised if either one decided to switch parties at this point.
No. That’d be a disaster. She’d vote to get rid of filibuster which is only hanging by a thread due to Manchin.
Any Repuke, Rand Paul included, who voted to certify the election, and sanctioned unlimited voter fraud on January 6th is a “problem” for the party. They are all dead to me.
Kelly puts the COW back in Murkowski.
She’s got my vote!
There is *not* going to be Republican Primary in Alaska in 2022. Party primaries are gone.
[[[The Turtle stated last week he will be putting the full force of his NRSC and PAC money behind Murkowski.]]]
As always donate to individual candidates. NEVER the NRSC.
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