When she saw General Mattis’s comments, Ms. Murkowski said, “I felt like perhaps we’re getting to the point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold internally, and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up.”
She said she was “working as one individual to form the right words.”
Asked whether she could still support Mr. Trump in the coming election, Ms. Murkowski said: “I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time.”
Ms. Murkowksi, who was elected to her third full term in 2016, did not endorse Mr. Trump that year, and after leaked audio surfaced of him boasting about sexually assaulting women, she publicly repudiated his candidacy, saying that he had “forfeited the right to be our party’s nominee.”
Still, while she has broken with the president on several occasions, Ms. Murkowski has usually tempered her public criticism of him, as have many other Republicans.
On Thursday, several Republican senators continued to do so, with some insisting they had not seen General Mattis’s remarks or otherwise deflecting questions about them.
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