“RINO” Senator Lisa Murkowski’s days at the U.S. Capitol may soon end.

Republican Governor of Alaska Mike Dunleavy is poised to announce a Senate run against Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski.

Dunleavy will have to wait a while, however, due to the fact that Murkowski’s term is not up until 2028.

Fox News provided more details on Dunleavy’s big move:

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is primed to announce a 2028 run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Republican legislator who repeatedly has clashed with President Donald Trump, according to several sources familiar with the situation or close to the governor.

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“He’s not going to quit his term,” a top source close to Dunleavy who used to work with him in Juneau, Alaska, told Fox News Digital of the governor’s long-term plans. The next Senate race in the Last Frontier falls in 2026 for incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.

The last governor to resign to run for higher office — 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin — “never recovered,” the source said.

Dunleavy “cares deeply about and wants Alaska to succeed,” the source said, adding the governor recently quipped that he can’t understand why people would want to “live with all this concrete” in Washington and not in the verdant Arctic as one reason the Pennsylvania-born Republican likes to otherwise avoid the East Coast.

“But he knows that (being in Washington) is the only way to get things done,” the source said, adding that Dunleavy was the second governor to endorse Trump in 2016 and that a top member of the White House staff said he visits more than any other governor despite a 3,500-mile trek.
“He’s not about an ego and pushing himself in front of the cameras. He gets stuff done. … He’s not like, ‘Please put me on this committee’ or ‘I have to attend this ball’. He doesn’t like those types of things,” the source added.

Newsweek reported that Governor Dunleavy hosted President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin for their summit in Alaska:

Alaska is the “most fitting” location for the summit between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the state’s governor has said.

Mike Dunleavy posted on X that Alaska’s location, which at its closest point is only 2 miles from Russia, makes it “the most strategic location” for the leaders to discuss the war in Ukraine on August 15.

Russian media also welcomed the location for Putin, who will make his first visit to the U.S. for a decade.

A U.S. location has allowed Trump to make a bold announcement and act as host for an event with potentially significant geopolitical consequences.

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Alaska was once a part of the Russian empire before it was sold to the U.S. by Tsar Alexander II for $7.2 million in 1867 and Russian media, which have discussed Moscow trying to recapture it, have noted the symbolism of the Arctic state’s location for a summit.

Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda called the choice “logical” given the countries’ common economic interests in the Arctic and that unlike the various other venues broached, Putin runs no risk of being arrested under a warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the jurisdiction of which the U.S. does not recognize.

Did Trump urge Dunleavy to run during his recent visit to Alaska?

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