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Alaska Republican Kelly Tshibaka leads Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) by double digits in the race for one of the state’s Senate seats, according to a poll released Monday.

A Republican candidate announced her plans Monday to run for the Alaska U.S. Senate seat held since 2002 by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R).

President Donald Trump criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in an interview released Monday urging Republicans to find better leadership.

The Alaska Republican Party voted to censure Lisa Murkowski at its quarterly meeting and pledged to support a primary challenger against her.

Neera Tanden withdrew her nomination for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Tuesday evening.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she met with Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), on Monday but that she hadn’t made a decision on whether to support her confirmation.

Neera Tanden, nominee for Office of Management and Budget (OMB), wrote on Twitter that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is “high on her supply.” Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim confronted Murkowski Wednesday about the reports of Tanden’s attack.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is under fire as Republicans in the Senate unify against him and Democrats remain uncertain if they will be able to cobble together enough votes to secure confirmation.

Sens. Burr and Cassidy supported impeachment, even though they voted with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in January on the motion that impeaching the president after leaving office was unconstitutional.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said in a statement Thursday that the Senate acted “appropriately” in impeaching President Donald Trump.

Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Donald Trump did commit impeachable acts by inciting the riot on Capitol Hill last week.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said in an interview Friday that President Donald Trump should resign immediately, arguing that “he has caused enough damage.”

A stripped-down version of Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) S.386 stealthy immigration bill may be added to the House spending bill, forcing GOP Senators to decide if they want to create a new class of low-wage half-immigrants, say lobbyists and insiders.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Saturday announced that she will vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court after expressing her opposition to an election-year confirmation, reports the Associated Press. 

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) remains against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, citing her opposition to an election-year confirmation.

President Donald Trump on Friday reacted to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) who will likely vote against confirming his nominee to the Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is no longer ruling out a vote on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, according to a report.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said this week that she would “oppose” President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee if the vote occurred prior to November 3, because “we’re simply too close to the election.”

Supporters chanted “Fill that Seat!” as the president spoke about his plan to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  

“He was very good today, I have to tell you, he was good,” Trump said. “Now I’m happy. Thank you Mitt. Thank you.”

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) supports a Senate vote on President Trump’s forthcoming Supreme Court nominee, he announced on Tuesday.

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) is throwing his support behind President Donald Trump’s effort to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) stated Sunday that the “same standard must apply” to fill the Supreme Court vacancy as it did in 2016.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said Saturday that Republicans “should hold the same position” they did in 2016 to decide who should fill the Supreme Court vacancy.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said this week before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday that she would not vote for a Supreme Court nominee until after the 2020 election.

Several high-profile establishment Republicans have expressed opposition to President Trump and have signaled that they will actively support his Democrat opponent, Joe Biden (D), in November.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) dismissed President Donald Trump’s threat to primary her on Monday, saying she cannot live in fear of the president’s Twitter account.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) asserted Thursday that former Secretary of Defense James Mattis calling President Donald Trump a threat to the U.S. Constitution was “true, honest, necessary, and overdue.”

Nine Republican Senators are lobbying President Trump to import more foreign workers, claiming there are not enough qualified Americans to take jobs even with more than 36 million out of work. 

An artificial depression created around the coronavirus outbreak will kill thousands of Americans, explained Jacki Pick.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) plans to introduce legislation on Tuesday that would rein in the federal electric vehicle tax credit that primarily benefits wealthy Americans, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The Senate passed a War Powers resolution on Thursday that would require President Donald Trump to obtain approval from Congress if he were to continue hostilities with Iran beyond 30 days.

Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s oldest son, tweeted Wednesday that Sen. Mitt Romney “should be expelled” from the Republican Party over his vote to convict Trump for abuse of power.

Swing-vote lawmaker Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Monday evening said she would vote to acquit U.S. President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, further cementing the commander-in-chief’s looming exoneration on Wednesday.

Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton conceded on Friday that Americans must vote President Trump out in November if they want to remove him from office, effectively making the same argument Republicans have been making since the launch of the partisan impeachment process.

The Senate on Friday voted down a motion to allow for additional witnesses to testify as part of the upper chamber’s impeachment trial, all but ensuring a quick acquittal of President Donald Trump.