Trump calls Murkowski a ‘disgrace’ to Alaska, criticizes ranked choice voting

President Trump went after Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Alaska’s ranked choice voting system on Saturday.

“The Republicans’ Worst Senator, by far, Lisa Murkowski, of the Great State of Alaska (A State for which I produced, on a continuing basis, Billions and Billions of Dollars, and which Crooked Joe Biden and the Dumocrats had totally shut down —” Trump said in a late-night Truth Social post.

“Then I came back, and delivered even more!), who only got elected because of Corrupt Ranked Choice Voting, is upset because I revealed what everyone knows, that the Ranked Choice Voting Ballot is a TOTAL DEMOCRAT SCAM meant to confuse the Voter, so that Senator Dan Sullivan will lose Votes to a man who has never participated in Politics before.”

“Lisa Murkowski is a DISGRACE to Alaska and our Country. You just don’t get any worse!” the president added later.

On Friday, Trump said he ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file a lawsuit to prevent certification of the Senate election in Alaska if Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) loses in this year’s midterms.

The DOJ filed the suit on Thursday, stating that the existence of a candidate with a close name to Sullivan’s would result in an invalid win for Democrat Mary Peltola. The president told reporters Friday that he had pushed for the election challenge himself.

“I’m the one who said do it,” Trump said.

In response to the suit, Murkowski said in a post on the social platform X on Friday that “Alaskans don’t need any help voting for their preferred candidates, and the State of Alaska has already handled this by clearly distinguishing the candidates on this year’s ballot.”

“The Department of Justice should never have filed this lawsuit,” she added.

The issue comes from Daniel J. Sullivan, a separate person from the Senator who is running for the upper chamber in Alaska, who will appear on the November ballot against the incumbent senator.

The top four vote-receiving candidates in Alaska’s primary go on to the general election. The two Sullivans will show up differently on the ballot, with the senator labeled “incumbent” and “Republican.”