"There may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party." Flake told The Arizona Republic ahead of his Tuesday speech on the Senate floor.
However, asked on Wednesday about Trump's claiming that he has only 18 percent approval rating in his home state Arizona, Flake admitted on cnn that it's "very difficult to be re-elected in the Republican Party right now, in Arizona in particular."
Meanwhile, Corker, who is a key vote on a tax overhaul as a member of the Senate Budget Committee, dismissed on Wednesday Trump's claim that he was retiring because he couldn't win re-election, telling cnn "there was no question" that when he chose not to run again for office that he was "in a dominant position."
Corker has repeatedly dismissed that Trump refused to support his reelection bid. Instead, the senator said the president asked him at least four times to reconsider his decision not to run.
Another leading Republican senator, John McCain, who was the 2008 GOP presidential candidate and promised not to run again during last year's campaign, also went after Trump in public last week, condemning that rising nationalism and isolationism have gone hand in hand in the Unites States under Trump's presidency.
Without mentioning Trump by name during his speech, McCain targeted Trump's leadership on the world stage and his "America First" slogan.
"To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of earth' for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems," McCain said, "is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history."
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