Senator Lisa Murkowski, one of only a handful of Republican senators actively considering whether to vote to condemn Trump, said on Tuesday that it is now difficult to imagine that there will be anything close to the 67 votes needed to condemn Trump.
“Whether or not we will see members change their minds after taking a vote, I think it is difficult for people to do that,” she said.
“Because [people] they’re like, ‘Wait, wait, wait. Did you vote to say that it was not constitutional and is now changing your mind? ‘We didn’t get a lot of credit and we didn’t get a lot of subsidy to change our mind around here, ”he added.
“That is why I find it a bit regrettable that we had such a spontaneous vote on an extraordinarily significant issue without the debate considered, the summary and the analysis,” she said. “People had to make really quick decisions.”
Murkowski said she and her colleagues were taken “by surprise” by voting on a fundamental procedure. She said she didn’t know until Tuesday morning that she would vote on Paul’s motion later in the day.
“I think almost everyone was very surprised to be in a position to really not just take a public position, but vote for it today. And so I think that there were many who were perhaps not so prepared. I don’t feel as prepared as I wanted to, ”she said.