- Trump is seeking revenge on the Republican Party figures who discredited him in the last months of his presidency.
- Senator Lisa Murkowski voted to condemn Trump in the Senate after he was barred in January.
- Trump told the Politician that he would campaign against the “disloyal” Alaskan senator in the 2022 Senate election.
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President Donald Trump said he would travel to Alaska to derail Senator Lisa Murkowski’s re-election campaign, one of his biggest criticisms of the Republican Party.
Senator Murkowski was one of the first Republican Party senators to ask Trump to step down after the January 6 Capitol rebellion and voted to condemn him in the Senate after he was stopped by comments he made that incited protesters.
Since losing the 2020 election and being impeached, reports detail how Trump is determined to take revenge on those who criticized him or turned against him.
In a statement on Saturday, Trump, who now lives at his resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, said he would make the 5,000-mile trip to Alaska to campaign against Senator Murkowski, who is running in the November 2001 elections. 2022 to the Senate.
“I will not, under any circumstances, endorse the failed candidate from the great state of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski. She represents her state badly and her country even worse, Trump told the Politician.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
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“I don’t know where the other people will be next year, but I know where I will be – in Alaska, campaigning against a disloyal and very bad senator.”
In January, Trump promised to support any candidate who wanted to challenge the Republican Party holders who had challenged him. A total of seven Republican senators and a large number of members of the Republican Congress voted to impeach or condemn Trump in early 2021.
At his seaside home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Trump is planning revenge, CNN reported, adding that he refers to this as “responsibility” for what he sees as “going against the people”.
Senator Murkowski said on February 18 that she was well aware that her words could hurt her chances of re-election next year.
Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump wave to their supporters as they board Air Force One bound for Florida on January 20, 2021, at Andrews Joint Base, Maryland.
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“I know that my actions, my vote can have political consequences. And I understand that. I understand that absolutely. But I can’t be afraid of that,” she told reporters, according to NPR.
The statement given on Saturday is not the first time Trump has pledged to work to oust Senator Murkowski.
In June 2020, Senator Murkowski said she could not support Trump in her 2020 re-election campaign, saying she agreed with former defense secretary Jim Mattis’s assessment that Trump was unable to lead the country.
In a series of tweets at the time, Trump said he would not forget his words.
“Few people know where they will be in two years from now, but I know, in the Greater Alaska State (which I love) campaigning against Senator Lisa Murkowski,” wrote Trump.
“Prepare any candidate, good or bad, I don’t care, I’m endorsing. If you have a pulse, I’m with you!”