He said he’s not going to show up. When Trump’s presidency was on the line, she did not vote to hear additional witnesses during the Senate impeachment trial. Murkowski, who is part of a dwindling faction of moderate Republican lawmakers, said she could consider leaving the Republican Party. In 2010, she won reelection as a write-in candidate running as an independent after losing the GOP primary in the tea party wave year. “But I will tell you, if the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me,” she said in the interview.

Source: Washington Post January 08, 2021 12:22 UTC