2025-06-14
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From the New York Times, this is The Interview.
I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.
Lisa Murkowski is one of the best known senators in the country,
which is strange if you think about it.
She's from Alaska, a state that has only about 740,000 people living in it.
She's not a bomb thrower who constantly seeks the spotlight.
Though she did recently go viral for being recorded at an event saying of Trump's second term,
we are all afraid.
Murkowski's name recognition rests on her defense of and positioning in the middle.
As the country and the Congress has become more polarized,
and the Senate so evenly divided for so long,
she's found herself frequently courted by both her fellow Republicans and Democrats for her vote.
And the public too is also interested in which way she'll swing on any given issue.
In her new memoir called Far From Home,