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A moderate Republican senator finally broke her silence on former President Trump’s conviction on Friday, lamenting the focus “Trump’s legal drama” takes away from President Biden’s “indefensible record.”
“These distractions have given the Biden campaign a free pass as the focus has shifted from Biden’s indefensible record and the damage his policies have done to Alaska and our nation’s economy, to Trump’s legal drama,” wrote Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on X. “A Republican nominee without this baggage would have a clear path to victory.”
The Republican, who frequently emerges as a detractor from her party in divisive matters, did not say whether she approved of the verdict or not.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued a statement on Friday reacting to former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict. (Getty Images)
The Alaska senator notably issued a last-minute endorsement of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley for the Republican nomination for president shortly before her campaign ended.
Haley often pointed to Trump’s legal troubles and the “chaos” she said follows him on the 2024 campaign trail, while similarly avoiding taking a position on whether the cases were right or wrong.
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“Yesterday, a New York jury found former president Trump guilty of falsifying business records,” Murkowski wrote on Friday. “This is the first step in the legal process. The former president has the right to appeal and I fully expect him to exercise that right.”
However, she said, “It is a shame that this election has focused on personalities and legal problems rather than a debate about policies that would lift up Americans.”
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was more forthcoming with her opinion on the verdict than Murkowski. (Anna Rose…
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