Murkowski, Sullivan resign GOP posts after denouncing Trump

Alaska’s two U.S. senators resigned leadership posts in the state Republican party in denouncing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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Senator Murkowski discusses the spending bill. (Image via Sen. Lisa Murkowski)
Senator Murkowski discusses the spending bill. (Image via Sen. Lisa Murkowski)

Robert Dillon, a spokesman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, says Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan voluntarily resigned over the weekend as members of the party’s state central committee.

Murkowski on Saturday called on Trump to step aside as the party’s nominee after a 2005 video surfaced in which Trump made lewd comments about women. Sullivan, meanwhile, withdrew his support of Trump.

State GOP chairman Tuckerman Babcock says Murkowski and Sullivan hold the committee posts by virtue of their holding elected office and would have those positions restored after the election.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan talks to reporters after his annual address to the Alaska Legislature. (File photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan talks to reporters after his annual address to the Alaska Legislature. (File photo by Skip Gray/360 North)

He says the party remains behind Murkowski in her re-election bid.

One of Murkowski’s rivals, Republican-turned-Libertarian Joe Miller, says he found Trump’s words reprehensible but takes him at his word that he is “repentant.” Miller is supporting Trump.

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