Alaska’s Senior Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) warned this week that Republicans are being intimidated into silence by Elon Musk and other pro-Trump influencers, in a fiery takedown of the political climate in her party.

Murkowski spoke to reporters after remarks at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on Wednesday.

“When people say, why aren’t you a better Republican? And if you’re not, get out of the party. You know what? You know what? Until Alaskans tell me, Lisa, it’s just not working anymore, I am going to give you every last breath that I have. And I’m going to try to solve every little problem,” Murkowski said, adding:

And I’m not going to compromise my own integrity by hiding from my words when I feel they need to be spoken. I’m going to take the criticism that comes. And it may be that Elon Musk has decided he’s going to take the next billion dollars that he makes off of Starlink and put it directly against Lisa Murkowski.

And you know what? That may happen. But I’m not giving up one minute, one opportunity to try to stand up for Alaskans. But I’ve got to figure out how to do that. And I need Alaskans’ help to tell me what they’re feeling so that I can help deal with that.

“I get criticized for what I say, and then everybody else is like, well, how come nobody else is saying anything? Well, figure it out, because they’re looking at how many things are being thrown at me, and it’s like, maybe I just better duck and cover,” she added of her fellow Republicans, concluding:

That’s why you’ve got everybody just. Like, ziplipped, not saying a word, because they’re afraid they’re going to be taken down, they’re going to be primaried, they’re going to be given names in the media. You know what? We cannot be cowed into not speaking up.

Murkowski has long been a target of President Donald Trump’s ire, having voted to impeach him following the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Murkowski was once reelected via a write-in campaign after she lost the GOP primary, and most recently was reelected by beating a Trump-backed opponent.

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