Trump-backed Alaska candidate blasts 'so-called Republican' Murkowski for endorsing Dem

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor over the Republican nominee, Bernadette Wilson, who has Donald Trump's backing. The cross-party move came days after the president endorsed Wilson on Oct. 13, and it sets one of the state's most prominent Republican officeholders against her own party's candidate, according to Fox News.

Wilson told Fox News Digital the pairing was predictable, calling the two "peas in a pod." She said they share a tax-friendly outlook that she labeled socialist, and she claimed to have warned about Murkowski's leanings since 2010. According to Wilson, Kreiss-Tomkins favors a higher income tax, wants to double the state fuel tax, plans to go after oil companies, and opposes paying the full permanent fund dividend. She declined to guess at Murkowski's motives, though she left open that the endorsement might be a rebuke of Trump.

Wilson's account of her opponent's tax views draws partly on his remarks in August before the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, where he said broad-based taxes and revenues would probably be needed to balance the budget.

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