Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of Trump’s most vocal Republican critics in the chamber, said in a podcast she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Dems in certain situations.
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No thank you!
jun 23, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
It's about time Senator Murkowski
jun 23, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
"The right circumstances". Spare me. There is no Republican Party any longer. Time is past for you to be an independent. Get moving on it!
jun 23, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Here's an idea for her - HAVE A TOWN HALL and ASK THE CONSTITUENTS. #concept
jun 23, 2025, 9:15 pm • 17 1 • view
Practically meaningless.
jun 23, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure! After abortion is gone and the entire federal government is in shambles. Fukkk her!
jun 23, 2025, 9:19 pm • 11 0 • view
Sweetie either way you are going to be primary’d Why not do something good while we wait to kick you to the curb come ‘26
jun 23, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop wasting our time
jun 24, 2025, 7:32 am • 0 0 • view
You can’t trust her or Collins to do the right thing.
jun 23, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Please. There are only Trumplicans in that side of the aisle.
jun 23, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Lisa, shit or get off the pot. End of story.
jun 23, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Liz Cheney needs to create a new “Republican”party that can get people back to debating what is good for America and not what is good for Donald Trump’s ego and bank account.
jun 23, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Do it, Lisa! Put your money where your mouth is!
jun 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
Shut the F up senator
jun 23, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Or, she could stay a Republican and vote NO on each and every bullshit bill and nomination.
jun 23, 2025, 9:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly 😑😒
jun 24, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
More character than any other republican
jun 23, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't suggest...DO
jun 24, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view
Let the right move left, for once.
jun 23, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Too late. Appreciate and applaud you going against Trump in any capacity. But I'll never forgive your docile complicity.
jun 23, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Tell her not to bother
jun 24, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
Um yeah 👇
jun 23, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Another wishy-washy statement from Lisa.
jun 23, 2025, 11:16 pm • 10 0 • view
There has to be a change in politics, because the Republican party has become fully hijacked by a criminal regime. America needs balance.
jun 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 10 2 • view
Is Trump starting WWIII a certain enough situation?
jun 23, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Shocking! I am going to hold my breath now
jun 26, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
So do it, @lisamurkowski now.
jun 24, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure! I will believe it when I see it!
jun 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Jesus. Finally Lisa gets a little spine and brain.
jun 23, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Come on over, Lisa. It's a much friendlier group.
jun 23, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Have the balls to vote your effing conscience. No matter party, mmkay??
jun 24, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Put your $ where your mouth is…
jun 23, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Do it or dont
jun 23, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh she won't
jun 23, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I just called each of her offices to support her for speaking out against what is happening and to encourage her to walk towards the light. You can call the Capital switchboard at 202-224-3121 or Google her to get her office numbers. Come on, everyone!! Send her some love!
jun 24, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
L F GO!
jun 24, 2025, 4:32 am • 0 0 • view
Then just do it! Damnit
jun 24, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
I'll believe it when I see it. Otherwise, she's just "concerned"
jun 23, 2025, 11:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Lisa Murkowski is the Joe Manchin of Susan Collinses
jun 23, 2025, 9:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Lisa Murkowski is a fucking traitor cunt....she's a vile disgusting fucking human
jun 24, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Better than being a republican.
jun 23, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck her! She is a total piece of shit. She will never do a single thing to help another person. Why do you report on her? She’s just a garbage human being. She will probably be a worse human being as an independent. Then she can support the worst of both parties. Again, fuck her.
jun 23, 2025, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view
We don’t want her
jun 24, 2025, 12:43 am • 0 0 • view
Bullshit! She’s a pearl clutcher without a backbone.
jun 24, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
She has a vulnerable seat and is up for re-election in 2028 Too fucking little; too fucking late
jun 24, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
Right now is the right circumstance.
jun 23, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Then do it. Otherwise, who fucking cares and thank you for breaking democracy.
jun 23, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
My god what more batshit crazy things would need to happen for her to make an actual decisive statement or even more wild actually take action?
jun 24, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
An independent republican
jun 23, 2025, 11:08 pm • 3 0 • view
A novel idea...whose time is overdue
jun 23, 2025, 11:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Then do it, Lisa. Pull the trigger.
jun 23, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Good for her if she does it!
jun 23, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd take every vote I could against these colossal pricks. Versus trying to change her from a Republican of conscience (Which is not [deleted] #Binary) into someone you'd want to hang out with and discuss how relevant Marx would be in the digital age. Learn to politic before you nick pick, slick.
jun 23, 2025, 9:22 pm • 2 0 • view
With votes so close — Sen. Murkowski’s independence & integrity matter more now than ever. History would remember her for something far deeper than policy disagreements — a good fight against autocracy — first things first.
jun 23, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, history will definitely remember you as a coward after your vote today — and so goes the mastery of political deception
jul 1, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
She’s culpable in everything Trump has done. You don’t get to change your team only to pander to new voters. Go home Lisa, for good!
jun 24, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
Doubtful
jun 23, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 24, 2025, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
She can also waffle like Susan Collins.
jun 23, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank goodness! We needed another Susan Collins.
jun 24, 2025, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
jun 24, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
We don’t want her.
jun 23, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
To her credit. 👍
jun 23, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Senator Murkowski, always making the bold moves! 🙄
jun 23, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Just do it. Talk is cheap
jun 24, 2025, 2:09 am • 0 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
🙄righhhht. With furrowed brows
jun 23, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 9:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Narrator: she didn't and wouldn't
jun 23, 2025, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view
If those circumstances haven't arrived yet, for her to "consider" breaking with her evil, fascist, death cult of a political party, they never will. Politico, not that it matters to you because all of you are soulless death eaters, but you should all be ashamed of what you do for a living.
jun 23, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Murkowski has FINALLY given her very last fuck
jun 23, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Consider? Take a stand, otherwise it is more blah blah blah.
jun 24, 2025, 5:42 am • 2 0 • view
almost “Flake-like” in her resolve.
jun 23, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ll believe it when I see it🤷🏻♀️
jun 23, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
LIsa should have courge and cross the aisle👍
jun 24, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
We should be angry that she waited so long but please, Senator, it’s time.
jun 23, 2025, 9:16 pm • 11 0 • view
Whatever
jun 23, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
if this was serious, she'd do it, and then the articles would be about that.
jun 24, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
She's troubled and concerned like Susan Collins. Furrowed-brow queens.
jun 26, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
If this isn’t the right circumstance, I’m not sure what is
jun 23, 2025, 9:16 pm • 23 0 • view
Especially, if she has been threatened by more than just being "primaried".. change parties, save your life.
jun 23, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Welcome!
jun 23, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
lol, lmao
jun 23, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t suggest. Just do it. What are you waiting for?
jun 23, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
We need to be rid of all the Republicans in power right now. Switching to Independent won’t change my mind. Her trying to appear less useless doesn’t make it so.
jun 23, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
She is Maga now. That stench won't leave her until she leaves the Maga party. Independent sure would at least sound better. What I don't like is the "in certain situations" footnote. Given the issues with Mr. Hoodie, the Dem side needs all the help they can get right now.
jun 23, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
We dont need another wishy washy politician who has bailed tRumps ass out of the fire
jun 23, 2025, 10:04 pm • 1 0 • view
No, she just wants to keep her lucrative job. Dump her fast.
jun 23, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Or, and I know that this is *radical*, she could just do her fucking job now and vote against her own party when it is doing something that is wrong.
jun 23, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Until she is told to get back in line.
jun 23, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Profile in courage. Also, she won’t. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
jun 23, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck her, she made that bed and she should rot in it!!!
jun 23, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
She says this kind of shit all the time. Gullible ass journalists.
jun 23, 2025, 11:08 pm • 6 0 • view
These are hardly normal times no matter what she said along the way in the past.
jun 24, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
She’s a liar and an idiot. I’ll believe her when she says ONE true thing to the media. Journalists are gullible man babies.
jun 24, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
She’d ‘consider’. I rank that right up there with her ‘concern’ about some of trump’s egregious dictates she voted to approve. Talk is cheap.
jun 23, 2025, 9:17 pm • 34 0 • view
Humph
jun 23, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Senator Murkowski should no longer "consider" party affiliation...but do it NOW. The clock is ticking and democracy is flailing in the winds...hope she'll take other GOP members with her!
jun 23, 2025, 11:21 pm • 9 0 • view
Murkowski is useless
jun 24, 2025, 2:42 am • 1 0 • view
Do it!!!
jun 23, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Then do it or stfu. We are way past the time to sit on the fence. Actions speak louder than words, Senator.
jun 23, 2025, 10:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Frankly, she is full of crap. Regards, Frank
jun 23, 2025, 9:15 pm • 64 0 • view
Thank you Frank for making coffee shoot out of my nose
jun 23, 2025, 9:42 pm • 7 0 • view
frankly, that is the only reason I was put on this earth. Take Care, Frank
jun 23, 2025, 9:46 pm • 10 0 • view
Just do it already! Switch parties now!
jun 23, 2025, 9:56 pm • 2 0 • view
I'll believe it when I see it.
jun 23, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Sen. Susan Collins is concerned.
jun 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 6 1 • view
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jun 24, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Sure, Jan 🙄
jun 23, 2025, 9:16 pm • 3 0 • view
FFS! What the hell will it take?
jun 23, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Your move, Susan Collins.
jun 23, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ll believe it when I see it
jun 24, 2025, 2:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Former Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords did exactly this in 2001 and flipped control of the Senate. He saved the country from the worst excesses of the Bush administration. Encourage her to be like Jeffords.
jun 23, 2025, 9:26 pm • 4 2 • view
Yep I keep saying they could be heroes.
jun 23, 2025, 9:28 pm • 2 0 • view
She's switch parties and Fetterman will take her place.
jun 24, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view
LOL! TRANSLATION: "I have my effing finger in the effing wind and I'll decide once I figure out the surest way I can keep my effing seat." Because⬇️
jun 24, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
She's a twat
jun 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Nobody cares what she says.
jun 23, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
She knows she can’t win re-election next year as a Republican. She will run as independent and then again change her party. Don’t trust her.
jun 24, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
Too little! Too late!
jun 24, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Bullshit, she’s a fucking coward like the rest of the gop or she would have already done it. I’m sure Susan Collins is also very concerned. They’re both like Lucy with a football🙄
jun 23, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope more republicans do.
jun 23, 2025, 9:25 pm • 4 0 • view
Me too. They won’t
jun 23, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
🙏🏼
jun 23, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
She loves to tease but in the end she still follow Dear Leader
jun 23, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Do it
jun 23, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
“In certain situations”? Nah just stay a Republican
jun 23, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
She should do that but she won’t. She’s part of a criminal party
jun 23, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey it’s like Susan Collins but with a brain and a spine
jun 24, 2025, 10:18 am • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t she have a new book coming out? And isn’t it supposed to be about the divisions in our government? Seems like this is a way for her to promote her book and sell copies.
jun 24, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Thats great but then we have the wild card Fetterman.
jun 23, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Look, what she is doing is opening up negotiations. I'm with you Lisa. Let the horse trading begin.
jun 23, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Half measures are better than nothing, I guess, but what she and other Republicans really need to do is permanently caucus with the Democrats and vote for a Democrat to head the Senate and the House. I know this is improbable, but what could be more improbable than Trump as president of the USA?
jun 23, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Let's stop reporting on what people kinda, sorta think they might do under perfect circumstances - and focus on what they actually do.
jun 24, 2025, 1:48 pm • 2 0 • view
She just sold her soul to the devil.
jun 24, 2025, 12:43 am • 0 0 • view
A little late to save democracy, Lisa. You’re no hero
jun 24, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Right, situations that will never occur. Gee thanks.
jul 1, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
The time is now.
jun 24, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
Will she impeach, that’s the real question
jun 23, 2025, 11:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol
jun 23, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Why talk about it just do it ! F*** !!!!!!
jun 23, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Bullshit. More lies
jun 23, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
what part of your old party going into orbit around naziism isn't 'the right circumstance' for splitting off?
jun 23, 2025, 11:19 pm • 1 0 • view
i'll believe it when i see it.. realistically she just wants this exact headline to be written and then do nothing
jun 23, 2025, 9:16 pm • 14 0 • view
The right circumstance already passed her by
jun 23, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Words like “consider” and “concerned” are meaningless. ** see Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski
jun 23, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
There's only two parties in this country, sweetie- and that won't change.
jun 24, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
DO IT!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE.
jun 23, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not sure what sort of “certain circumstances” she would need. Based on what’s already happening, I can’t understand why traditional Republicans aren’t crossing the aisle in droves.
jun 23, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 23, 2025, 9:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Wow!!! How exciting. Everything is gonna be different!!!
jun 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
If she’s serious about doing it, she should do it. She’s testing the water and trying to determine how many of her constituents threaten her if she goes independent. In other words, she’s a calculating coward.
jun 23, 2025, 9:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Just do it!
jun 24, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
thanks for the non news Politico.
jun 23, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you ❤️👍🇺🇸
jun 23, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
What would be the right situation?
jun 23, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Clearly everything so far isn't enough, so don't hold your breath
jun 23, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Well that can’t be that hard when your team goes full authoritarian.
jun 23, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck her
jun 23, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
It's now or never, restore the Constitution and rule of law. Send the Sargent at arms over and arrest Trump and his collaborators.
jun 23, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Lisa, sista, you are pinning your legacy to a bunch of psychopaths. If you can’t take your job seriously, then show a little pride in yourself and your career. Do something important.
jun 23, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
👏👏👏👏
jun 23, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Talk is cheap.
jun 23, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
If this isn't the right time. It never will be.
jun 23, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view