Lisa Murkowski is Alaska’s four-term senator, first appointed in 2002 by Frank Murkowski, her father and the state’s governor. An avowed moderate Republican, she entertains the possibility of caucusing with the Democrats if the Senate emerges deadlocked from next year’s midterms. Her relationship with Donald Trump is fraught.
In 2016, she voted for the former Ohio governor John Kasich. In Far From Home, her first book, she writes: “One of my simple rules … has been to withhold my vote from any candidate of bad character, regardless of the politics.”
