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Arizona Democratic Party official says voters feel that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has 'totally turned her back on the people who got her into office'

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Arizona Democratic Party official says voters feel that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has 'totally turned her back on the people who got her into office'

The vice-chair of the Arizona Democratic Party said Sen. Kyrsten Sinema "turned her back" on voters when she decided to leave the Democratic Party.
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As with Tulsi Gabbard, good riddence to Sinema.

Momentum to 'replace Sinema' already building after she ditches Dems

While the White House and Democratic congressional leadership are publicly hoping U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's departure from the party won't change much in Washington, D.C., progressives in her home state of Arizona and across the nation are already pushing to replace the newly declared...
www.rawstory.com
 
GOd forbid you have and rational moderate voices in your party
 
As I said before, is there any politician who gave the middle finger to her voters as much as Sinema has? No examples spring to mind.
 
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Exquisitor said:
Good, let the Democrats run someone else in 2024.
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They were likely going to do that anyway. Their problem (reason for complaining?) is that now they can’t keep her off the AZ general election ballot by defeating her in their AZ DNC primary election.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
They were likely going to do that anyway. Their problem (reason for complaining?) is that now they can’t keep her off the AZ general election ballot by defeating her in their AZ DNC primary election.
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Well, either way we'll have a Democrat is 2024.
 
Rawley said:
GOd forbid you have and rational moderate voices in your party
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We don't want D's that take millions from corporate interests and then refuse to support legislation that would have required them to pay higher taxes.
 
What did everyone think the Arizona Democratic Party would say, "you rock... go girl!?"
 
HIP56948 said:
Question> Can they recall her?
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Technically yes, and you're not the first person to wonder that. I just put "Can Arizona..." and the autopredict function found "...recall a Senator" in the fourth result.
 
Exquisitor said:
Well, either way we'll have a Democrat is 2024.
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Perhaps not, if that splits the ‘never republicant’ and/or a good part of the ‘independent’ vote between the demorat candidate and Sinema running as an independent in the general election. That could benefit the republicant AZ US Senate candidate as much as (or more than) it hurts Sinema.
 
Just have to keep them even enough for it to go to run-off, and of course Sinema in third.
 
OrphanSlug said:
What did everyone think the Arizona Democratic Party would say, "you rock... go girl!?"
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I thought they might in order to keep the seat a heck of a lot closer to Dem hands than it will be if a Republican wins it in 2024. Biden and Schumer immediately showed more support for her than they have in years - IMO, for just the reason I mentioned.
 
The problem Democratic leadership has with her is the same problem that the Democrats have with another senator : they haven't found an effective way to positively motivate her. It's not as difficult as it seems, though. It rhymes with fitloads of honey.
 
Sinema running as an independent causes a problem of 'splitting the vote'. The question is, will she siphon off more votes from Republican-leaning indepndents or Democratic-leaning independents?

Unfortunately, with her mostly solid Democratic voting record, 93% with Biden, I suspect it will be to siphon heavily siphon Democratic-leaning independents, handing the election to Republicans.
 
I can't imagine the Dem party will put up a candidate against her. That guarantees a GOP win BUT I also don't think they can stop a candidate from running if one wants to and there seems to be a lot of resentment. Gallego seems particularly interested in running against her. AZ is always interesting!
 
Well, yeah. She seems to be on some kind of mission to be an anchor or lobbyist. Something D.C.-adjacent. She can't reasonably expect the GOP to get behind her since she voted for much of Biden's agenda. Even if the Democrats cave to her implicit threat and don't challenge her, that's no guarantee. She's going to have a really hard time convincing the progressives who helped put her in office to go for her instead of sitting at home in 2024; she'll be stuck saying "vote for me because otherwise you get Lake (or someone like her)".

Gonna be hard winning an election through hostage taking.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
They were likely going to do that anyway. Their problem (reason for complaining?) is that now they can’t keep her off the AZ general election ballot by defeating her in their AZ DNC primary election.
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I don't think her attempt to do a Lieberman is gonna turn out the same way. Doubly ironic because she raked Lieberman over the coals for doing exactly this.
 
Not a fan of Sinema or the Democrats, but I do think it shows poor morality to run as a member of a specific party with a specific platform, and then change parties in the middle of your term. The ethical thing to do would be to wait until the end of your term and then run with the new party affiliation--or lack of said affiliation. Bait and switch is not good behavior.
 
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