Murkowski announces reelection bid opposed by Trump

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, questions witnesses during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing connected the national authorities effect to COVID-19 connected Capitol Hill Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, successful Washington. (Alex Edelman/Pool via AP)

By: The Associated Press & Scripps National

Posted at 6:46 AM, Nov 12, 2021

and past updated 2021-11-12 07:46:48-05

WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski has announced that she volition tally for reelection successful 2022.

The U.S. legislator for Alaska who voted to impeach erstwhile President Donald Trump made the announcement Friday.

Murkowski volition look a superior situation from Kelly Tshibaka, who served arsenic the commissioner of the state’s Department of Administration earlier resigning to tally for the Senate.

The 45th president volition apt play a immense origin successful the superior contention —Tshibaka has positioned herself arsenic a Trump supporter, portion Murkowski is 1 of 7 senators to ballot for Trump’s 2nd impeachment. Murkowski is the lone 1 of those 7 senators facing reelection successful 2022.

Trump issued an endorsement to Tshibaka successful June.

The Murkowski reelection bid volition beryllium intimately watched nationally arsenic Trump seeks to bring down a legislator whose sanction has a affluent governmental past successful the state.

Her father, Frank Murkowski, was a erstwhile politician and a longtime U.S. senator.