Posted on 10/12/2016 10:08:22 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Alaska’s two senators have resigned from leadership posts in their state’s Republican Party after denouncing Donald Trump, according to a new report.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan voluntarily stepped down over the weekend as honorary members of their party’s state central committee, The Associated Press said Wednesday.
The AP said it confirmed the pair’s decision Tuesday with Murkowski campaign spokesman Robert Dillon. Party officers are expected to back party candidates.
The unusual move follows several GOP officers in Alaska resigning their posts last month to publicly back Republican-turned-Libertarian Joe Miller in his bid to replace Murkowski in this fall’s Senate race.
Murkowski and Sullivan both sharply criticized Trump last weekend following the release of a controversial recording of the billionaire.
The 2005 tape captures Trump discussing his failed sexual advances on a married woman and grabbing women's genitals without consent.
“I cannot and will not support Donald Trump for president,” Murkowski tweeted last Saturday, one day after the tape’s emergence. "He has forfeited the right to be our party’s nominee.”
“I will continue to campaign for Republican candidates across Alaska and the country,” Sullivan said in his own statement after the footage’s emergence.
“Keeping Republicans in the Senate majority is critical to the economic and national security of Alaska and America. As for the White House, Donald Trump should step aside. I will support [Republican vice presidential nominee] Gov. Mike Pence for president.”
Murkowski seems in little trouble of being defeated in her reelection bid.
She boasts a 33-point lead over Miller and two other candidates in the state's Senate race, according to a weekend poll from Moore Information.
The same poll found Trump leading Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 3 points in Alaska.
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Tomottow they sill announce that they are becoming DemocRats.
Tomorrow they will announce that they are becoming DemocRats.
This really is a fight to the death.
“The same poll found Trump leading Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 3 points in Alaska.”
that’s a wow...
This is good to get the socialist out. Wonderful. It shows me that Trump is very strong in their state.
Get out, corrupt RINOs.
Lisa Murkowski has always been a big squish. She is mostly a dimoKKKRAT.
It’s a start. They’d show more respect for the people who put them in office if they commited seppuku.
Confirmed. It is Donald Trump and Mike Pence against the republican NWO types, demoncrats and the media.
I reckon that makes Trump for the people.
Such utter, knowingly dishonest lying bullshit reporting. This makes my blood boil. I'm done with the GOPe, f em and the horse the rode in on. I'm all in for Trump and ready to crawl over broken glass or whatever it takes to defeat the uniparty-media axis. If we win it will be epic. If we lose, at least I know I did my bit to save my country from these evil scum.
“Trump leading Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 3 points in Alaska”
If they’re stepping down, that means Trump is leading by more than 10 percent in Alaska.
I think many voters see it just that way. There is the Establishment and there is the People. And only Trump cares about The People.
Joe Miller was nearly killed in a car chase the night he won the primary last time.
Not a peep from the news/GOP about that.
They’re hoping Hillary gets elected
What’s insane about this is that they don’t see that the American people are so done with their antics
“The 2005 tape captures Trump discussing his failed sexual advances on a married woman and grabbing women’s genitals without consent.”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” - Joseph Goebbels
They don’t have to announce it, most people who pay attention know that MurCowski has always been a Democrat in an R jersey.
Well this is what we want. Purging the uniparty out. They will feel better over on the D side.
Murkowski hasnt ever been a real R forever. If we would have demanded she leave she never would have.
Thank you Trump.
THIS is about All the LITTLE PIGGIES who have been feeding at the crony capitalist, globalist trough worried about losing their food rations if Trump gets in.
Murkowski was always a DemocRat in spirit if not in label and the other idiot is probably the same.
I just so hope Trump is elected. He has exposed a festering sore in the RepublicRat Party.
They have marked themselves as enemies of the People.
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