The first Republican senator to call on Donald Trump to resign after his incitement of Wednesday's chaos has confirmed she is considering leaving the party, in a move which would give the Democrats a majority in the Senate.
Lisa Murkowski, who represents Alaska, has long been considered an independent-minded senator.
On Friday she told her local newspaper, Anchorage Daily News, that she was considering abandoning her party entirely after Trump, her party leader, whipped up his supporters into a violent frenzy and directed them to the Capitol, in an uprising which left four rioters and a police officer dead.
'If the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me,' she said.
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