Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said during an interview this week that if the 2024 presidential election is a rematch of the last election, she will vote for one of her colleagues, Joe Manchin (D-WV).

Murkowski told PBS’ Margaret Hoover on “Firing Line” in an interview that aired Friday that she would vote for Manchin for president if he runs as a third party candidate.

“Your Democratic colleague, Joe Manchin, is being courted by an outside effort to run as an independent in the 2024 election,” Hoover said. “This has been called by the organization No Labels, an insurance policy. Do you see any scenario where a third-party candidacy isn’t a spoiler for Donald Trump and just returns him to the White House?”

“Yeah, you know, there’s been no end of second-guessing and people moving the numbers around,” Murkowski responded. “I don’t know on that. Others are smarter than me with elections [and] can weigh in there and they certainly have. Think about it: If we go into a 2024 scenario where it’s basically a redo of 2020 between Trump and Biden, what does that say? That we have nobody better than these two?”

“And so, an Independent or somebody who is offering something in the middle. People are hungry for that,” she continued. “I can tell you, I’m talking to people up north. They’re asking because they know that I’m very close with Joe Manchin and I brought him up to this state a couple of times and he endorsed me. I’ve endorsed him.”

A few moments later, Hoover asked Murkowski if she would support Manchin if he decided to run as a third party candidate.

“I tell you, if it’s a matchup between Biden and Trump, I know exactly where I’d go,” she said. “I would go with, I would go with Joe Manchin.”

“I am one who doesn’t like to use my vote for the lesser of evils,” she continued. “I want to be proactive in who I think could do the job. I think Manchin could do the job. But will our system allow for that? That I don’t know.”

CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP

WATCH:

"If it's a matchup between Biden and Trump, I know exactly where I'd go. I would go with Joe Manchin," GOP Sen. @lisamurkowski tells @MargaretHoover.

She says she doesn't want to vote "for the lesser of evils."

"I want to be proactive….I think Manchin could do the job.” (1/2) pic.twitter.com/LNiqLPROYd

— Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (@FiringLineShow) July 20, 2023

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro triggered the political Left online Friday afternoon after seeing “Barbie” in theaters on opening day and calling it woke “garbage.”

Shapiro said that the movie was one of the “most woke” movies that he has ever seen and that he is releasing a full-length review of it tomorrow.

“My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’ and it was one of the most woke movies I have ever seen,” Shapiro tweeted. “My full review of this flaming garbage heap of a film will be out on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 10am ET.”

My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’ and it was one of the most woke movies I have ever seen. My full review of this flaming garbage heap of a film will be out on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 10am ET. pic.twitter.com/Lptha0p3qx

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 21, 2023

The movie, produced by Warner Bros., is expected to bring in roughly $70 million on opening day, according to Deadline.

The movie is projected to have the strongest opening weekend of any film this year at a whopping $150 million, the report said.

The other top movie being released this weekend is Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” which was produced by Universal. The report said that the movie was expected to bring in roughly $75 million on opening weekend.

Angel Studios’ “Sound of Freedom,” which was released earlier this month, has had an impressive showing in theaters, bringing in more than $100 million.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP

Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” produced by Paramount, which was released in theaters nearly two weeks ago, has reportedly brought in more than $259 million worldwide.