NEW: ‘RINO’ Senator’s Approval Rating Plummets To Record Low

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has suffered a meteoric collapse in overall favorability over the last several weeks, according to a new poll conducted by Alaska Survey Research.

According to the poll, Murkowski finds herself underwater with self-identified conservative respondents by 64 percentage points. The result is not surprising for the senator, who has oftentimes drawn the ire of President Donald Trump’s base by siding with Senate Democrats on numerous occasions.

While Murkowski did cast a decisive vote in favor of the Trump-backed Big Beautiful Bill — a massive spending package that included a number of the president’s signature legislative items — she also joined Senate Democrats in voting against a key Trump judicial nominee last week. Other notable deviations include her 2021 vote to impeach Trump after the January 6 Capitol protests, a vote to extend citizenship to DACA recipients in 2018, and a vote to block emergency funding for a border wall in 2019.

Alaska Survey Research found that Murkowski’s approval rating among conservatives, while incredibly low, had not budged when compared with the poll’s previous result back in April. Her approval rating among self-described progressives and moderates has utterly collapsed in that same time period, however.

Among moderates, Murkowski’s net approval rating has fallen from +28 in April to just two points in the green in the August survey, a decline of 26 percentage points in just a few months. The progressive left had an even bigger drop, as Murkowski’s favorability rating among the demographic dropped from +54 to an astonishing -21 between April and August.

The result suggests that liberals no longer give Murkowski credit for her previous anti-Trump votes, likely due to her pivotal vote to advance the Big Beautiful Bill last month.

“You can see what a pariah Lisa had become on the right. Her BASE was comprised of lefty progressives, Dems and left-leaning moderates,” Alaska Survey Research wrote in a summary of the most recent poll. “So along comes the Big Beautiful Bill. And after a bout of hand-wringing that even Susan Collins would’ve been proud of, Lisa votes yes.”

Murkowski has served in her position since 2002, when she was appointed by her father, then-Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski, who left office with historically low favorability. She most recently survived a primary challenge from a Trump-backed candidate in 2022, which is largely credited to the state’s ranked-choice voting system, which allows voters to rank their candidates in order of preference.

If no candidate secures north of 50 percent in the primary the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and their votes are redistributed to the voters’ next preferences. This process repeats until one candidate achieves a majority.

Murkowski managed to defeat Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibaka thanks to the ranked choice system, as the incumbent received 77 percent of Democratic Party candidate Patricia Chesbro’s second choice votes.

Murkowski is next up for re-election in 2028, though she has also left the door open to a gubernatorial campaign next year.