Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
When Sen. Lisa Murkowski formally endorsed Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign earlier this month, the announcement came too late to have a significant impact. After all, Donald Trump had already effectively locked up the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
’” The senator — who faced right-wing challengers in two recent re-election campaigns, and had to run a write-in campaign in 2010 after losing a GOP primary — went on to say, “You have people who felt some allegiance to the party that are now really questioning, ‘Why am I ’” It was hardly her only comment along these lines. Just two days after the Jan. 6 attack, Murkowski was one of a tiny number of congressional GOP members who called for Trump’s immediate resignation. “I want him to resign.
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