Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona decides to leave party ranks to register as an independent
The majority won in Georgia polls on Tuesday, which has never been released, did not last long for Democrats. Two days later, Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced this Friday that she will be leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent, without even planning to join the Democratic parliamentary group as such, as will two other independents, Bernie Sanders and Angus King.
That leaves Joe Biden’s formation once again in the hands of Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia who has sabotaged the president’s agenda in these two years in office, taking advantage of the Senate’s Solomonic branch forcing Democrats to votes in unison so that Vice President Kamala Harris could break the tie with her vote.
Manchin and Sinema have always been the “spoilers” of the party thanks to that narrow seat distribution since Biden came to the White House. They are also the result of a political process that forces the formation to nominate conservative candidates in those states of deep America where they would not win with a centrist ideology. In the end, everything is a political calculation. The same thing the Arizona senator did when she understood that she won’t be able to win in the primary against the candidates who want to steal her position, like Congressman Ruben Gallego.
Cruella Devil’s role in the polls had not made her very popular among Democrats, though it might help her win the votes of the more centrist Republicans. Polls show that in a hypothetical matchup, Gallego would inflict a humiliating loss of more than 20 points winning 47% to 24%, according to the Arizona Public Opinion Research poll, which also compared her to state superintendent Kathy Hoffman, also up 20 points .
None of them have publicly expressed any intention to challenge her, although it’s not hard to see them coming. In a Facebook post expressly promoted by his campaign, the congressman echoed the rumors last July by acknowledging that “a lot of people” are asking him if he will run against her in the 2024 primary. he does and he thanks you,” his advisers wrote when they asked for donations for his re-election. “If he wants to run against her, he needs to win outright first in November and build a strong grassroots movement.” Gallego was re-elected with 77% against 23%.
Sinema must have thought that the only space left for him in the current political panorama was that of the independent figure. The mythical ‘maverick’, who has become more popular in the current age of political disenchantment. “Registering as an independent is a reflection of who I have always been,” he said in a video released by his office yesterday. “Nothing will change”. And in this she agrees with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who after meeting with her has agreed to keep her in the position she has on the House committees in exchange for her support in appointing their presidents. Without it, Schumer would have had to agree to those appointments and even his own with the opposition, as he did in January 2020, at the cost of further concessions. Hence the friendly tone of his statement.
Kyrsten is independent and always has been. I am confident she will be an effective senator and I look forward to working with her in the productive sessions of a new Democratic majority,” he encouraged. “We will maintain our majority on the committees, we will exercise our power to issue subpoenas and we will be able to approve the nominees,” he summarized.
Source: La Verdad
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