US Sen. Lisa Murkowski edged closer than ever to publicly considering a break with the Republican Party during a revealing interview over the weekend with Galen Druke, where she carefully but unmistakably left the door open to declaring herself an independent.
Pressed four times by the host on whether she would consider becoming unaffiliated with the GOP — particularly if Democrats gain three Senate seats in 2026 and shift the balance of power — Murkowski dodged a direct yes or no, but made it clear the idea isn’t out of the question.
“There may be that possibility,” she said when asked whether becoming unaligned or independent was a future she could imagine. Rather than dismiss the notion outright, Murkowski pointed to Alaska’s coalition-style governance as a model that transcends party labels.
“In Alaska, we’ve kind of embraced that as a governing style,” she said, referring to bipartisan coalitions in both chambers of the state Legislature. “Makes no difference if Republican or Democrat.”
The host, Galen Druke, sensing momentum, asked a third time. Murkowski smiled and acknowledged her evasiveness: “I’m evading your answer, of course, because it is so supremely hypothetical.” Still, she added, “It is not foreign to Alaskans.”
On the fourth and final attempt, Druke pushed: “It sounds like you’re saying yes.” Murkowski again gave no definitive answer, but did nothing to walk back her earlier comments — further fueling speculation about her political future.
The longtime senator, who survived a 2010 primary loss by mounting a write-in campaign, has long cultivated an image of independence. She was one of just seven Republican senators who voted to convict former President Donald Trump in 2021, and often clashes with her own party on issues ranging from reproductive rights to environmental policy. She is not welcome at Republican Party events anymore.
While Murkowski has not declared any formal shift in party affiliation, her carefully chosen words — and refusal to rule it out — will almost certainly keep the speculation alive. Her memoir-style book launched on Monday, and thus her interview schedule has picked up to shore up the sales.
If Democrats do gain ground in the Senate next year, Murkowski’s position as a swing vote could prove decisive. And should she formally leave the GOP, it would mark one of the most significant realignments in modern Senate history, and one likely to be welcomed by Democrats eager to solidify their majority.
She’s said this before, most recently on CNN in 2024. For now, Murkowski remains a Republican. But after Sunday’s interview, that label may be more a matter of convenience than conviction.
It always was a flag of convenience for her she’s just trying for a payoff to raise what are her true colors if she has any core be!iefs, other than lining her own pockets an Spending!! Spending!! Spending!!! Of Other Peoples Money she’s an OPM addict!
Those that are unaware of this intent, raise your hand. Who among us registrar any shock.
There are titles that exist for souls such as the “Princess’s”.That they do, yes they do.
Cheers
It has been abundantly clear since at least 2010 that she has no allegiance whatsoever with the Republican Party and has been a politician of fortune, ebbing and flowing with the tides that fit her personal benefit. Why the Republican Party, at any level (state or national) has allowed her to play this game so openly is beyond me. I have to wonder, if the 17th Amendment had been repealed, would this kind of political adventurism be occurring, but the “coalitions” that the Alaska Legislature is so famous for over the past 40 or so years makes me realize that she’s just a symptom of our problem, not the parasitic host of the disease.
Murkowski hasn’t been a Republican for a long time.
I feel sorry for her soul.
When a person lies to get ahead, nothing good can come out of that action
She is NOT a Republican!!!
She has never been a Republican and she can’t be trusted to ever tell the truth about anything.
Don’t let the door hit you where the good lord split ya!
Murkowski was a femocrat from birth
VA swamp beast. Knows nothing about life in AK
Shows up to collect dark money influence peddling funds from #TribesThatBribe
Owned and controlled by the CCP
Amen.
LOL…..Lisa was always our little Democrat daughter. We figured our royal family would face real turmoil if we outed her early, so instead, we just called her our Little Rasputin. But now, 22 years after her appointment, we end up in real turmoil. And her little book is only making it worse.
I’ll be selling her books at Democrat coffee shops in San Francisco, NYC and Seattle. I get 10¢ for each book per my allowance agreement. It keeps me from having to reopen my noodle shop. Maybe Lisa will run for president.
I’ll buy a gross of her books, House Husband!
But I’ll only pay ten cents each for them. Their pages would make some satisfying toilet paper.
I would be curious, also, to see how they managed to print a book that only has pages on the left.
IDEA!
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Let the Anchorage Assembly purchase a few hundred Lisa books and deliver them to the homeless at their new encampment. Perfect for wiping themselves. Lots of pages for review. One book per homeless. Should last until about early or mid-September.
LOL. Now that’s a way to get Lisa’s message out to the public.
All about her and her money! Just leave we don’t want you!
Arland Spector Republican Senator from Pennsylvania switched parties in 2009. He lost the Democrat Primary in 2010. After that he was done, nobody wants a SELLOUT, BACKSTABBER. She cannot win an Election as a Democrat, and her Republican voters will not support her anymore. It will probably be Downhill for the rest of her term, and no one will trust her in 2028. No one can trust her now. Lisa and Lin Cheney can feed squirrels from D.C. Park bench..
This is why she and her hired gun Scott Kendall passed RCV, so she doesn’t have to make it thru a primary. Cheers –
Her track record doesn’t lend itself to a successful result. Long past time to replace her with a much better representative (ie: Kelly-T).
She cannot leave soon enough but Princess was never really here was she?
I’ve not had an opportunity to comment very often in recent months. Business has never been better, with having to add multiple staff psychiatrists to deal with the onslaught of new TDS inpatients (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
I’ve been quietly working on my own book about the psychiatric decline of America since the arrival of Donald J. Trump on the political scene.
I’ve also written a full chapter on Lisa Murkowski and how her own diminished mental health has
taken a toll on her and her family. There’s a lot of material on Senator Murkowski, which can be aligned directly to her cross-polar schizophrenia, coupled with her own timidity and destabilized confidence. Her psychological profile is worthy of indepth coverage because its unlike anything I’ve ever seen in a politician. Lisa Murkowski’s personality is one of a kind. I think you’ll enjoy my analysis of her. I think you’ll enjoy my book.
Can’t wait, Doc. Nancy and I have been doing our own analysis on Lisa for decades and all we ever determined is that she is spoiled and entitled beyond belief. Even her own siblings want to know why Nancy wasn’t breaking with old school Catholic tradition and using contraception back in the day.
She followed her mentor Sen Ted Stevens was he not a Republican
Agree, and very true.
Ted Stevens’ political career was an abomination, which left a legacy of incredible damage to this state from which it may never heal. Just his part in ANCSA, turning Alaska natives into corporations, is reason enough to damn him, a travesty that has perverted and warped the political, social and economic fabric of Alaska in innumerable ways, and will continue to do so for years to come.
But at least Uncle Ted was more honest about it
Jefferson is basically correct. When the US Senate voted to either convict or acquit Uncle Ted for the crimes of Bill Clinton, UT voted to acquit. That’s because UT himself knew that his own financial scandals as Senate Appropriations Chair were looming on the horizon. Interestingly enough, Frank Murkowski voted to convict Clinton. Don Young, helped impeach Clinton during the House hearings. But Don himself, as House Chair of Transportation was self-dealing in financial scandals relating to federal transportation dollars appropriated to billionaire developers in Florida in exchange for huge campaign donations. So what does all of this mean?
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Life-long politicians can’t help themselves when it comes to robbing the public piggy bank. Remedy: Term Limits.
Don Young: 50 years in US House.
Ted Stevens: 40 years in US Senate.
Murkowski Family: 45 years in US Senate
4 years in Governor’s.
In Alaska, they just die off. Murkowski Dynasty must end!
Lisa Murkowski
The emperor with no clothes…
And no flesh.
Thanks a lot, dammit.
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Can’t unsee it.
I keep asking Fish and Game to open a RINO season in Alaska.
It is long overdue, as the state’s RINO population continues to explode. Led of course by their matriarch Lisa, whose trunk always swings left.
Pick up three seats, then I’ll switch to an independent and continue voting the way I have for the past decade – as a (D)emocrat. And what el$e, Lisa? You were already in the second place column for me, right behind a barrel of fermented vomit deposited during a kegger. At least no one will call you RINO Queen again…
Rankest of rank choice voting people ever installed to Congress is our dear Princess Lisa. I guess she is choosing Independent cuz there’s no formal Stasi party to align herself with. Her two-faced tyranny over Alaskan’s representation in Congress has gone on for way toooo long.
Lisa has boxed herself into a corner. Democrats love her now for not voting with Republicans. Republicans, and conservatives, don’t like her at all. If she switches she won’t get the attention she so loves. She’ll never make a decision because she loves the attention. If she were transparent she wouldn’t be in the spotlight nearly as much!
“Coalition” = uniparty socialism, it allows repubs to blame dem and vica versa. Keeps the swamp crawlers alive.
So, she’s saying she just might stop lying, if the price is right? God- that speaks volumes!
I’d trade her for Fetterman any time
While I find her repugnant, I think her words are truthful. She has no loyalty to the GOP, Alaska, anyone or anything else really. She is in it all for her own ends.
How can we miss her when she won’t go away?
If she does bolt, she’ll do something the feckless AK GOP could never do.
Improve the party.
Princess is saying she’s available for rental if the price is right.
The fact that so many on here hate her tells me that Murkowski is the best person for the job.
You seem nice.
And as usual, the radical leftist extremist takes a position at odds with reality.
Your cult of death and insanity is nothing if not predictable.
Brilliant deduction. Sounds like 7th grade logic.
Funny.
Equally funny how leftists will declare a conservative is childish for saying the same thing about one of theirs.
Her Wiki page notes that, “in 2002…she had a conservative primary opponent, Nancy Dahlstrom, who challenged her because Murkowski supported abortion rights and rejected conservative economics. Murkowski won by 56 votes.”
I recall those days; the woman was loathsome then and she is loathsome now.
Wow …. didn’t realize.
So if just 30 GOP voters had voted Dahlstrom we would have been done w/ the Queen of nepotism?
Problem is, I don’t know if Nancy Dahstom would be much of an improvement.
Manley,
That’s why I appointed her in 2002 to the Senate. Nancy and I knew that her political career was otherwise about over.
This no-labels situationship we have with Lisa Murkowski has really got my hamster wheel spinning. What if the majority members in the legislature formed a new party? We could call it the Alaskan Swingers party™. No more partisanship, just one big orgy held annually in Juneau.
Now that Fox News has reported on this, does anyone else wonder how many times a day Lisa visits the site to get quick self esteem boost by ego-surfing the article? Selfies with the story on her monitor in the background?
Ranked choice voting gives Alaskans a choice over minority candidates.
No it doesn’t. Stop lying.
Lisa is the enemy of Alaska. A complete traitor. She stands for nothing I believe in. God, family & country. Lisa stands for Lisa and when her reign of terror is over there is a good chance she will need to find somewhere else to live.
Nick can have her seat. We will work diligently to get her out of office.
Commie Man,
I do not hate Lisa, I do however think she has exhibited Sociopathic tendencies at times. I recall when in 1967, ( or was it early in 1968?) she clutches her doll in her left arm, her hair dressed like Medusa, as she pushed me in the face with her right hand as she screamed ” Get Out”! This memory has been indelibly etched into my memory.
The sense of entitlement, the lack of empathy for others, the exploitation and manipulation of certain voting blocs who advance her career goals… Lisa’s tone deafness to those within her party who disagree with her is another example. Hate? No, no that is a what Leftist do!
Lisa screamed if she didn’t get her way. Of all of Frank and Nancy’s kids, Lisa was by far the most spoiled and a bratty. I blame Frank and Nancy for her behavior. Certainly for putting her into the US Senate where we all suffer from this wretched post-Madonna.
“… for the right offer.”
Tells me pretty much all I need to know about her intents. it is all about what she can get out of it, instead of serving her constituents.
I was thinking of writing a children’s book based on the life of Lisa Murkowski.
The working title is “My Little Bony”.
Try ” my little Phony”
Even better!
Now Lisa is milking cows on both sides of the fence.
Her sick, warped, twisted views are much more in alignment with the Democrat Party than with the Republican Party. She really needs to make the move to the other side of the aisle.
Can we just offer her the door?