GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski has urged the Republican Party to look to the future, emphasizing to CNN on Tuesday that she has "not embraced the party of former President Donald Trump."
The Alaska Republican said that "I think we're in a place where Donald Trump is gone and, in terms of his role in party, that has yet to be determined. But I have not embraced the party of Donald Trump. I'm looking for the Republican Party."
Her remarks came as Trump’s Senate impeachment trial gets under way and as Republican representatives who voted for his impeachment said they did not regret their decision, despite the political cost, according to Newsweek.
Liz Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House who has been censured by her state party in Wyoming for being one of the 10 GOP representatives who voted to impeach, told Fox News that she has no regrets about what she did, explaining that “the oath that I took to the Constitution compelled me to vote for impeachment and it doesn't bend to partisanship, it doesn't bend to political pressure. It's the most important oath that we take.”
In addition to Murkowski, other GOP senators agree with Cheney, such as Senate Minority Whip John Thune, who told CNN that “the longer we're tied to a personality — a cult of personality — I just don't think that's a good durable model for the future. That's a debate we are going to be having among Republicans both here and around the country."
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