@Maj. Bill Martin
The original Hill article is here: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4098609-gop-senators-rattled-by-radical-conservative-populism/
Thanks, and it is exactly as I figured. The Conservative Nuthouse is literally lying once again because the Hill article says nothing of the short. That is just an awful website that repeatedly misrepresents news stories for clickbait. And most people don't read the underlying article because they assume the Nuthouse is being honest. Big mistake.
Here's the Nuthouse Headline:
"Lisa Murkowski Threatens to Leave Republican Party and Join Democrats, Several Republican Senators Including Thune, Romney, Cornyn and Young Agree"The headline of the actual source article in the Hill is:
GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populismWhich is an accurate headline. But Murkowski and four other GOP Senators threatening to quit the Republican Party, and become Democrats as the Nuthouse headline claims?
Completely false. What Murkowski is talking about in the The Hill article is what some Republicans, presumably voters, are telling her, and not even they mention joining the Democratic Party. Here's the operative language from the original article in The Hill:
"Republican senators believe their party has a good chance to take back control of the White House and Senate, given President Biden’s low approval ratings and the favorable map of Senate seats up for reelection, but they regularly face political headaches caused by populist members of their party who say the rest of the GOP is out of step with mainstream America.
“We should be concerned about this as Republicans. I’m having more ‘rational Republicans’ coming up to me and saying, ‘I just don’t know how long I can stay in this party,’” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). “Now our party is becoming known as a group of kind of extremist, populist over-the-top [people] where no one is taking us seriously anymore.
“You have people who felt some allegiance to the party that are now really questioning, ‘Why am I [in the party?]” she added. “I think it’s going to get even more interesting as we move closer to the elections and we start going through some of these primary debates."
She's saying what's been told
to her. And the Nuthouse's claim that "Several Republican Senators Including Thune, Romney, Cornyn and Young Agree"...I mean, there is nothing remotely like that in the entire article. They just made it up.