Trump endorses Alaska Gov. Dunleavy for reelection — as long as he doesn’t back Sen. Murkowski

Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday his support for the reelection bid by Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, but his endorsement hinges on whether the governor backs one of Trump’s most vocal Republican critics in the Senate.

“Mike Dunleavy has been a strong and consistent Conservative since his time in the Alaska State Senate,” Trump said in a statement through his Save America PAC. “I was proud to endorse his first run for Governor, and I am proud to support his reelection, too. Alaska needs Mike Dunleavy as Governor now more than ever.”

Trump said Dunleavy has his “Complete and Total Endorsement” but stated that the endorsement is “subject to his non-endorsement of Senator Lisa Murkowski who has been very bad for Alaska, including losing ANWAR, perhaps the most important drilling site in the world, and much else.”

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“In other words, if Mike endorses her, which is his prerogative, my endorsement of him is null and void, and of no further force or effect,” Trump added.

Murkowski, a moderate Republican with a history of working across the aisle to achieve bipartisan agreements, was one of seven Senate Republicans to vote to convict the former president in his February impeachment trial. She is now the only one of those seven running for reelection in the 2022 midterm elections.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, asks questions during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 30, 2021.
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Murkowski announced her reelection campaign in November, but she faces an uphill battle among Republicans in the state over her handling of Trump…