Murkowski Republican calls the caucus with “hypothetical” democrats

Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, described the prospect of Caucus with the Democrats an “interesting hypothetical”, but she failed to do so if the Democrats collect three seats in the middle of 2027.

“It’s an interesting hypothetical,” Murkowski said on the Podcast “GD Politics” With Galen Druke. “You started with the right hook here, it’s if it would help Alaska.”

The senator promotes her new book, a memoir entitled “Far from home”. She was asked several times if she would do caucus with the Democrats if the party is divided into the upper room of the congress becomes 50-50 after the next elections.

“This is why this book is a little frightening, because now people know what motivates me, and it is this love for Alaska and what I can do,” she said. “So this is my main goal. I have to understand how I can be the most effective for the people I serve.”

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Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, pointed out “the opening to explore something different from the status quo” if the Democrats collect three seats in 2027. (Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Murkowski said that the “problem” she had with Druke’s hypothesis was that “as disputed as we can be on the republican side, I don’t see that Democrats are much better”.

She said that Democrats also have policies with which she does not agree.

“I cannot be someone I am not,” said Murkowski, describing how she suffered pressure to present herself as a libertarian after having narrowly lost the primary of the Gop Senate in 2010. She then won as a writing candidate in a historic victory, launching her career in the Senate. “I cannot say now that I want this work so much that I will pretend to be someone that I am not. It is not who I am.”

Druke, arguing that Murkowski would not have to become a Caucus democrat with them, asked: “Is there a world in which by becoming unlined or independent that you could help Alaska, would you consider it?”

“There can be this possibility,” she said, noting that the Alaska legislature currently includes a coalition with members of both parties.

“This is one of the things that, I think, are good and healthy for us, and it is one of the reasons why people are not surprised that I do not have a good line with party initiatives, because we have somehow embraced a style of government that says if you have good ideas, and you can work with it there, that makes no difference if you are a republican or a democrat.” “We can govern together for the state of the state.”

“If the Democrats have won three seats in the next elections and have offered you a way to adopt bills that benefit the Alaskans if you cause with them, would you consider it?” Druke in a hurry.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, arrives for a Senate credits subcommittee on the defense audience in Washington, DC, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (Allison Robbert / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Murkowski said in response that a coalition is “not unrelated to the Alaska”, but that it is at the Federal level in the American Senate.

“I avoid your answer, of course, because it is so extremely hypothetical, but you can say that the construction with which we are working at the moment, I don’t think it’s the best construction,” said Murkowski, adding: “Is it something that deserves exploration?”

Murkowski joked by saying that Druke was trying to “do news” and said that the rank voting system in Alaska means that candidates are more likely to be elected if they are not considered fully supporters.

“It’s a different way of trying to solve our problems rather than just saying that it’s red and it’s blue,” she added.

Druke again hammered the senator, saying, “Was it a yes? There is an opening?”

“There is a certain openness to explore something different from the status quo,” she said.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, questions the American secretary for trade Howard Lutnick during a hearing of the Senate credits committee on June 4, 2025. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

Murkowski, one of the seven republican senators who voted to condemn President Donald Trump during his second dismissal trial after the riot on January 6, recently called the deadline for July 4 that GOP leadership wishes to adopt “Big and Beau Bill” by Trump by “arbitrary”.

“I don’t want us to say that we have reached the date, but our policies are lower than what we would like”, Murkowski said Axios. “Why are we afraid of a conference? Oh my God.”

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Murkowski, critic of Trump’s foreign policy, in particular on Ukraine, told the Washington Post That it was in a “lonely position” in the Senate, and is sometimes “afraid” to express themselves among republican colleagues for fear of reprisals.

“We were used to being called the biggest deliberative body in the world,” she told the post in a recent interview promoting her book. “I think we are still called, but now I wonder if it’s aerial quotes.”