The Alaska senator says she will now support the confirmation, despite previously signaling she would vote against President Donald Trump's nominee.
"I had hoped that if we were going to be at this moment in time just over a week out from our national elections, that we would be here on the floor debating - debating the merits of a [stimulus] relief bill. And in my home state of Alaska, as in so many states around the country, we're seeing unprecedented numbers [of new coronavirus] cases now," Murkowski continued.
Last Thursday, a congressional pool report spoke with the Alaska GOP senator and she gave a very different view just after Barrett's nomination advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee."I've shared for a while that I didn't think we should be taking this up until after the election, and I haven't changed," Murkowski said.
Regardless of Murkowski or Collins voting against Barrett, Republicans still have the simple majority votes needed to confirm Barrett, which is likely to happen Monday evening. With Murkowski's sudden flip-flop, the expected vote is 52-48. Murkowski perhaps buckled to the pressure from her Republican colleagues including the president himself, who has attacked any dissenting voices in the GOP majority senate. In June, Trump tweeted:"Few people know where they'll be in two years from now, but I do, in the Great State of Alaska campaigning against Senator Lisa Murkowski. She voted against HealthCare, Justice Kavanaugh, and much else.
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