Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Susan Collins in opposition to Mitch McConnell but he can afford one more defection
Alaska Republican senator Lisa Murkowski said on Sunday she would not support efforts to confirm Donald Trump’s third supreme court pick before the presidential election on 3 November. The move came a day after Susan Collins of Maine, another Republican moderate, took the same position.
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