US senator of Alaska: Republican Party seems fractured

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska weighed in on the current state of the Republican Party and President Donald Trump, saying she is concerned that the Republican Party might be becoming too exclusive and disjointed.

“We seem to be more fractured within our party now than in the big-tent Ronald Reagan days,” Murkowski said. “And I worry about that; I worry about that.”

Murkowski said the party used to lean less to the right and was more inclusive of differing views across the spectrum, the Ketchikan Daily News reported Saturday.

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