Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she has an “openness” to leaving the Republican Party and becoming independent, under certain circumstances.
Asked by journalist Galen Druke if she would ever become an independent and join the Senate’s Democratic Caucus, Murkowski left that scenario open.
“There may be that possibility,” she said in an excerpt of an interview Druke posted to X. “There is some openness to exploring something different than the status quo.”
Murkowski, a former chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee who has a centrist record on matters like abortion rights, health care and climate change, is promoting her new memoir, “Far from Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C.,” which will be released Tuesday. She also chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing funding for the Interior Department and EPA.
