Senator Lisa Murkowski, one of the few Republican senators actively considering voting to condemn Trump, said on Tuesday that it is now hard to imagine anything close to the 67 votes needed to condemn Trump. .
“Whether or not we’ll see members change their minds after they’ve already voted, I think that’s hard for people to do,” she said.
“Because [people] are like, ‘Wait, wait, wait. You voted to say this was not constitutional and now you change your mind? “We don’t get much credit and we don’t get much permission to change our mind here,” she added.
“That’s why I think it was a bit of a shame that we had this very spontaneous vote on an extremely important issue without the deliberate debate and brief and analysis,” she said. “People had to make very quick decisions.”
Murkowski said she and her colleagues were “flat-footed” by the main procedural vote. She said she didn’t know until Tuesday morning that she would vote on Paul’s motion later in the day.
“I think just about everyone was quite surprised to not only take a public position today, but also vote on this. And so I think there were many who may not have been that prepared. I don’t feel like I’m as prepared as I wanted, ”she said.