Sullivan Vows Murkowski Election Support Despite Trump Challenge
- Senator says he and Alaska colleague disagree but ‘good team’
- Murkowski voted to convict Trump in February impeachment vote
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Alaskan GOP Senator Dan Sullivan said he’ll support colleague Lisa Murkowski’s re-election bid despite a vow by former President Donald Trump to campaign against her in 2022.
Murkowski, 63, was one of seven Republicans to join Democrats in a vote in February to convict Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors for his role in inciting a mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. A majority voted to convict but was short of the two-thirds threshold needed to uphold the impeachment.
Murkowski’s the only one of the seven who’ll face voters in 2022. In a statement issued March 6, Trump called her “the failed candidate from Alaska” and vowed to fly to the state to campaign against her in person next year.