US Senator Lisa Murkowski became the first Republican in the Senate on Friday to publicly call for President Donald Trump’s resignation, stating that he has already “done enough damage” to the country.
The Alaska Senator also questioned her own future in the Republican Party and warned that could stop joining their ranks if he remains a slave to Trump despite the fact that the president incited a crowd of supporters to storm the Capitol to undo his electoral defeat.
‘I want him to stop. I want him out. He’s done enough damage. ‘Murkowski, furious with the president’s behavior, said in an interview with Anchorage Daily News.
“He hasn’t focused on what is happening with Covid-19. Either he played golf or he sniffed in the Oval Office and made the cross to all the people who have remained loyal to him,” he said of the president.
‘He just wants to stay there for his ego. He must go. He has to do the right thing, but I don’t think he’s capable of doing anything good. ‘
Murkowski, 63, has opposed his party and Trump several times, but voted last year to acquit Trump in the impeachment of the president.
In 2010, after losing in the primaries to the candidate backed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, Murkowski left without being affiliated with a party, meaning voters have to write her name if they want her to vote. And won.
“If the Republican Party became nothing more than Trump’s party, I honestly wonder if it’s the party for me,” he told Anchorage Daily News.
Most Republicans in the Senate, at least publicly, do not support Trump’s impeachment.
Congressman Adam Kinzinger was the first House Republican to call for the removal of Trump through the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to remove a President who is deemed incapable of serve.
Several Senate Republicans have expressed outrage over Trump’s behavior, but none have explicitly stated that they want the president to step down.
Republican Senator Ben Sasse told CBS on Friday that he would “certainly take into account” the articles of impeachment being promoted by Democrats.
Mitt Romney, the only Senate Republican to vote to condemn Trump for impeachment, knocked Trump to the ground in a speech as Joe Biden’s election certification session resumed, interrupted by the capture of the Capitol.
But on Friday, he stopped calling for Trump’s impeachment.
“I think we should hold our breath” until Jan. 20, when Biden takes office, he told The Washington Post.