‘A disgrace’: Trump finds yet another Republican senator to condemn ahead of the midterms

President Donald Trump has now turned on a third Republican senator in less than a month, and MS NOW's Steve Benen argues the pattern shows Trump still misjudges how to work with Congress. The latest target is Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who said the Justice Department should never have sued over this year's Alaska Senate race. She stressed that voters there need no help choosing candidates and that the state had already made the ballot choices clear.

Trump answered Saturday night with online posts calling Murkowski the party's worst senator and a disgrace, and asserting that Murkowski owes office only to ranked-choice voting, which Trump labeled a scam. Those claims are false, Benen notes. Trump also warned that administration help for Alaska would stop if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.

Earlier this month, Trump went after Tom Cotton of Arkansas for wavering on a daylight savings time proposal, posting the senator's cellphone number, and later denounced John Cornyn of Texas as weak and blamed Cornyn in advance if Ken Paxton loses the Senate race there. According to Benen, none of the three has budged, and Trump risks alienating allies whose votes may matter as the midterms near.

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