The president has taken to social media to blast Alaska’s senior senator, Lisa Murkowski. Calling her “the Republicans’ Worst Senator, by far,” he went on to criticize her at length for her opposition to DOJ’s lawsuit in Alaska seeking to counteract potential shenanigans stemming from ranked-choice voting and the fake “Dan Sullivan” running against Alaska’s junior senator, the real Dan Sullivan. The situation in Alaska is, indeed, outrageous — and I have argued, alongside former Federal Elections Commission Chairman Sean Cooksey, that it is possibly criminal — but it’s not clear that alienating the Alaska political figure who likely controls the votes Sullivan needs is the most prudent course for the president.
Perhaps more important still is the wisdom of alienating Senator Murkowski with the live (if perhaps optimistic) possibility of a 50/50 Senate on the horizon. Twitter commentators have tut-tutted that this sort of behavior from Trump might just cause Murkowski to cast her lot with Chuck Schumer and deprive Republicans of a majority if Trump keeps this up.
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