Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was impressed with Kamala Harris’ debate performance against Donald Trump earlier this week, according to a new interview with her in the publication Semafor. Murkowski is warming up to Vice President Harris, it appears, saying Harris has “leadership presence,” but stopping short of endorsing her.
Murkowski told the reporter she “saw a side of Kamala Harris that I’ve not seen before, which was a firm and clear kind of leadership presence. Maybe that was just practiced and rehearsed for one time only. But I think it came across … that was news to me. I’d never seen her in gatherings where she’s kind of talking leader-to-leader.”
It may be shocking for Alaskans who saw the debate between Trump and Harris, because Harris did not answer the questions but instead pivoted to her pre-planned answers. But for Murkowski, it was a good performance.
In fact, Murkowski may have a memory block. She has, indeed, been with Harris in leadership situations. She attended a luncheon of women leaders in Washington, D.C. in 2021, hosted by Vice President Harris, and the vice president seated Murkowski right next to her.
But newly discovered leadership presence and stunning debate skills aside, “I’m still really struggling with the policy perspectives that she brings to the table that for a state like mine are really hard. Really, really hard. So, I’m still ‘none of the above,’” Murkowski told Semafor’s reporter. Murkowski was one of just seven Republicans who voted in favor of convicting Trump during his second impeachment trial; her distaste for Trump is poorly disguised and he has no warmth toward her, either.
Will Murkowski throw her vote away and write someone’s name in? Why won’t she just tell Alaskans who she thinks is best for the state in terms of policy? She says she is worried about Harris’ policies, so what does she think about Trump’s policies? Or is this simply fear that if Trump is elected, she will be sidelined?
Murkowski is joined by Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, and Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, none of whom are supporting Trump, but all of whom are in the “none of the above” category.
Sen. Murkowski is also joined by Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, who is refusing to say if she will vote for Harris, but it’s clear from her words she will not be voting for Trump.
“I’m not voting for Trump & I’m not endorsing anyone else either. The media won’t allow us to engage in nuanced conversation because it doesn’t sell clicks. I won’t vote for a candidate who’s not pro-choice. I can’t ask Alaskans to vote for a candidate who’s not pro-energy,” Peltola said on X/Twitter in July.
As she is in the heat of her reelection bid and is considered vulnerable, she is not saying who she supports. Her statements in the past have been that she wants to stay away from controversy. She often skips votes in the House when she thinks they are too controversial. Or she is known to just vote “present,” as she did on the Alaska’s Right to Produce Act, after telling her Democrat colleagues to oppose it.
Rather than be on record voting for Harris at the National Democratic Convention in August, Peltola just skipped going, even though she was a delegate with voting responsibilities.
This refusal to go public on a matter of the greatest consequence for Alaska is unheard of, and that makes it historic for Alaska: Two of the three sitting representatives in Washington, D.C. are simply not going to tell Alaskans who they are going to vote for in the presidential race.
Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan has already endorsed Trump. In February he said that the policies of the Trump Administration were vastly better for Alaska than the over 65 executive orders Biden has signed that have targeted Alaska’s economy. Sullivan served for two years parallel to the Obama Administration, four years while Trump was president, and through Biden’s three and a half years, and he’s seen the difference.
Sullivan said in Ketchikan that “the two leading Presidential candidates both have detailed records on Alaska: Biden gets a “D-“ and Trump gets a “strong A.” In fact, working with me and our Republican Senate majority, the Trump Administration’s record to advance the interests of Alaskans is unmatched: ANWR, access to NPR-A, the King Cove Road, the Ambler Road, allotments for our heroic Alaska Native Vietnam Veterans, the Tongass Roadless rule exemption, reestablishing our state’s right to manage fish and game, Operation Lady Justice to address the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis, historic investments in public safety for rural Alaska villages, defending our Second Amendment rights, appointing conservative judges to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and putting prominent Alaskans in Senate confirmed assistant secretary positions at the Department of the Interior.
“From Day 1, President Biden has focused on reversing this historic record of achievement to the significant detriment of Alaskans. If re-elected, President Biden will continue his aggressive, illegal push to turn Alaska into a giant national park. For all these reasons, I am again supporting former President Trump for President and working with my colleagues to regain a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate,” Sullivan said.
“Alaskans deserve to know who their elected leaders support,” said Randy Ruedrich, former chairman of the Alaska Republican Party. “It’s one of the things you do in representing us. If you’re afraid to represent us, maybe you should not be there.”
One politico at a Republican fundraiser in Anchorage on Friday night said, “We all know Mary and Lisa are both voting for Harris but they’re chickening out and won’t admit it publicly. This is just showing weakness and fear.”
I don’t care who they vote for. Mmmm…Maybe it’s..oh, I don’t know. Satan?
All they do is reflect the torn choices of many Americans.
Do they vote for a candidate whose ideology is far from what we believe is healthy and stable for our country? Or do they vote for a deranged crazy uncle who might say the right things from time to time, but who is of built of such poor character and capable of impulsive harm that we – at best – keep him at arm’s length.
Who is the deranged crazy uncle? Bernie isn’t on the ballot.
I don’t care who they votes for, all I care about is not voting for them, they are both poison, and need to removed,
Murkowski and Peltola both care more about elitist Marxist globalist popularity than the state of Alaska. Harris is a classic snarky mean girl and anyone who would find that a sign of ‘leadership’ is deluded. What exactly are Harris’s policies and what on earth did she say during the debate that depicted leadership? I heard lots of platitudes and cliche but zero substance and lots of mean girl bullying, aided and abetted by her cohorts.
It is much easier for 2 to go down together to the pit, than it is for the individual to stand & face the fire alone HOME OF THE BRAVE INDIVISIBLE ARE THE MAGA FORCES TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP MAGA.
‘https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/11/25-lies-kamala-harris-told-in-her-debate-against-trump/
They are both communist dbags who hate our country. They don’t need to tell us because we already know who they will be voting for.
I love these two ladies … they support VP Tim.. now he’s best known for putting Tampax in little boy’s bathrooms.. Which they think is commendable . Now what I want them to explain is how do these young boys use these tampons.. Who helps them and for how long do they do it ? Can Anchorage assembly members help demonstration this ?
Lol
Used for leaky butt syndrome….
Can boys get toxic shock syndrome from leaving tampons too long in their penis?? And how ,as someone else pointed out do boys use tampons in their penis to stop their uterus shedding causing them to bleed.
People living in biological reality really want to know.
Nope tampons are for biological women.
The devils in the details – something weird Democrat leftists and pandering (male and female) whores seems to forget.
Unless they cheat again , Peltola and Murkowski are done.
Now if the lazy Anchorage and Fairbanks citizens would get off their butts and vote for people that share their morals, instead of letting people with twisted morals or no morals at all do all the voting.
Girl Power! Lol
It’s a binary choice. Not voting is at least a half vote for the current failure of an administration. Their whole Willow project “accomplishment just got crapped all over today. There will be no more resource extraction economy in this state, which is the economy of this state, if a Democrat administration controls the White House. Our state is in a rapid decline under the Democrats and a few thousand fishing jobs are not a substitute. Anyone notice the record low return of Kings and Silvers? We must suffer Murkowski for the remainder of her term, we can send Peltola back to her boat in 6 weeks.
Anyone notice the closures of on-shore processors?
Harris is an Affirmative Action lawyer, Affirmative Action VP and hoping to be the second Affirmative Action president. Murkowski became a lawyer after failing the bar exam 6 times, until her daddy intervened. Murkowski never won an election on her own merit. It was always daddy Frank giving her the helping hand. Joe Miller and Kelly Tshibaka were far more qualified than Lisa Murkowski. And Peltola relied strictly on Democrats cheating to win her a seat.
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Three stupid women who seek power. Get rid of them all.
Tower of integrity, Princess.
Why would we expect them to do what’s best for Alaskans at this point. They both pander to a select portion of the population while ignoring the best interests of the majority. They are the dynamic due of doom.
They are both flopping around like a pair of well-hooked Russian River reds. Cheers –
Difference is the Russian River Reds are good for something.
Alaska can certainly do better than these 2
Lisa signed off on the illegal impeachment of Trump so I don’t think she will vote for him. Mary has been a pawn of the DNC so I doubt her handlers will not let her to vote for Trump. Next?
The “Shaman Sisters” have teamed up to desecrate the rest of what Alaska has left.
Lock it up and throw away the keys before the next generation even thinks about a place to thrive.
I really hope they’re out moose hunting together.
Actually, the Affirmative Action admitted law students, like Harris, would otherwise be bartenders and out of wedlock moms. Would you hire one? LOL. Not unless they have huge legal malpractice insurance. Lisa Murkowski was admitted to law school based on her daddy’s US Senate position. Lisa has no legal skills at all. Would you hire a lawyer who flunked the bar exam 6 or 7 times? These women are ill equipped. And yet, idiots keep electing them.
I had to appoint Lisa to the Senate. Otherwise, she wasn’t going anywhere on her own. Lisa was the spoiled brat of our pack. I gave her everything and look how she turned out.
Well, you raised her.. Its your fault
Yes, it’s Frankie’s fault. We are a very devoted Catholic family and Lisa ends up supporting abortions. It seems Lisa flunked more than law bar exams. She couldn’t even perform in catechism.
I guess I’m sorry that I didn’t insist more boldly that Catholics should practice birth control. We don’t like abortion, but more thinking on our part would have prevented a Lisa Murkowski foisted on Alaskans and Americans.
We were very selfish. The three minutes of fun turned into 67 years of nightmare.
I am pretty sure that most of us are tired of these two clowns and their clown show!
Democrats vote their party no matter what. Of course both of them are going to vote for Harris.
They are both just Low self esteemers , just like all the other anti Trump hating people… The Low self esteemers always hate others when they get hit right between the eyes with tough hard truths and reality, they don’t have the will power to get through adversity or difficult times, or solve any real problems, and they surely are not people you want leading, organizing, or conveying anything important , they will always sale them selves or take the route of least resistance, even if it’s leading themselves and others over a cliff . Just Look at the people you personally know around you who our Kamala supporters, they all have self esteem issues, or no self esteem at all, every single one of them.. We have many in our society who strictly see the entire world through their own personal issues , their all only about their own self survival, that’s how all these weak links are!!! Kamala is one of them, and thats exactly why they like her!!
We already know they are with the enemy.
Murkowski wants to strike the same pose with Kamala that she did with Diane Feinstein: Pinned up against the wall like a helpless punk being told what to do and when to do it. Apparently doing what you’re told by the D.C. elites is financially beneficial.
If Murkowski, Peltola, and Harris crashed on a desert island, who would survive?
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America.
I just wish they would stop convincing young women to murder their babies.
Murkowski and Peltola are like dummyrats – only good for crab bait.
If Lisa publicly supports Kamala Harris, I will disinherit her from the massive Murkowski wealth. I’m no Dick Cheney. Nancy and I support Donald J. Trump.
Ahmen, Frankie.
We support Trump too.
And I as well.
Well there’s a shocker. I’ll sleep well knowing these two Alaska hating marxists will have wasted their votes.
What a sad image. These two have ruined Alaska
Why bother with the facade? Its obvious to everyone where they both stand !
Remember.. “Its a private club, aNd. You’re NOT invited to join!!”
Trump lives rent-free in so much of Lisa’s head that her blood pressure shoots up at the mere mention of his name. Think if a totally irrational response to any Trump situation and Lisa will make it. Peltola? She’ll do whatever her handlers tell her. Providing she’s around to cast a vote.
What has happened to the Alaska I lived in and loved for 17 years? Then-Gov. Murkowski started this political disaster when he appointed his RINO daughter Lisa to the Senate seat. The rest is history.
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