{"id":10566,"date":"2025-06-23T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/murkowski-suggests-she-could-become-an-independent-in-the-right-circumstance\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:16:48","slug":"murkowski-suggests-she-could-become-an-independent-in-the-right-circumstance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/murkowski-suggests-she-could-become-an-independent-in-the-right-circumstance\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski suggests she could become an Independent in the right circumstance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of President Donald Trump\u2019s most vocal critics in the Senate GOP, said in a podcast on Monday that there are certain situations in which she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere may be that possibility,\u201d she told Galen Druke in an interview excerpt of his GD Politics podcast, scheduled to post in full on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Druke asked Murkowski how she\u2019d respond if Democrats won three seats in the 2026 midterm election, \u201cand they say, we\u2019re gonna let you pass bills that benefit Alaskans if you caucus with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’ve started off with the right hook here, is \u2018if this would help Alaskans,\u2019\u201d she told Druke.<\/p>\n

Murkowski has clashed with Trump several times since he returned to the White House, including accusing him<\/u><\/a> of \u201cwalking away from our allies\u201d after the president\u2019s February fight with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. And in May, she criticized the administration for revoking<\/a> the temporary protected status of Afghan immigrants, calling the move \u201ca historic betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, Murkowski told reporters her Republican colleagues<\/u><\/a> were \u201cafraid\u201d of going against Trump and then-ally Elon Musk, and said the pair\u2019s work reducing the federal workforce through the Department of Government Efficiency was \u201ctraumatizing people.\u201d<\/p>\n

“There is some openness to exploring something different than the status quo,” she told Druke.<\/p>\n

But switching parties likely isn\u2019t the answer, she said in the podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy problem with your hypothetical is that as challenged as I think we may be on the Republican side, I don\u2019t see the Democrats being much better,\u201d Murkowski said. \u201cAnd they\u2019ve got not only their share of problems, but quite honestly, they\u2019ve got some policies that I just inherently disagree with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murkowski’s office was unable to provide a comment for this post before publication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of President Donald Trump\u2019s most vocal critics in the Senate GOP, said in a podcast on Monday that there are certain situations in which she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Democrats. \u201cThere may be that possibility,\u201d she told Galen Druke in an interview excerpt of his GD Politics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}