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This way Sinema doesn’t lose to Gallegos in the primary
Doesn’t sound like she has a lot of friends left in the Arizona Democratic Party
Would Kari Lake get in that race, once she figures out she’s not going to be governor?

 

Having had a three way race for Governor up here, with a former Democrat trying to thread the same needle - I'll say getting people to knock doors for you is very difficult without a party apparatus. And I imagine those most active on her behalf four years ago are probably MOST upset with her. Millions of Big Pharma money can buy TV ads, but I doubt she'll even have the endorsements that give you credibility.

 

Oh she won’t win. But Arizona is not Oregon. It does not have extra blue voters it can afford to have siphoned off.

 

I don't see a blue voter voting for Synema. If her statewide popularity was higher, she wouldn't be in this position. Even if she was a loyal Dem, her approval ratings being what they are would merit a primary because the Ds can't afford to throw the seat away. Her argument is that she's an "independent" when in reality she's beholden to her big corporate PAC donors only.

 

Like, are there a lot of people who will vote for Sinema but not Gallego?

Who are these people? Are they intelligent enough to communicate? I'd like to meet one.

 

There is also a HUGE difference in someone who has been "independent" throughout their political career like Sanders or Angus King, and someone like Sinema. Murkowski had the benefit of a decades long political network/machine she inherited from her father with the job. Plus, the Republican Party is reletively weak in Alaska - as we saw in the recent House election.

 

It seriously felt like Chicago’s Eye of Sauron when you were there during his Presidency. Just bad vibes around the whole building when he was President.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...lkCy9zEI+O2/fVYDme07pTdBfL3w=&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

 

And her craving for attention.

 

I've been bewildered by the Sinema heel turn over the past few years. She can try to spin it as voting her conscience and not being beholden to the party line, but everyone who is familiar with her knows that is pure bullshit. She has been voting against the issues she ran on. She was a champion of raising the minimum wage until the moment she needed to vote on it.

She has cashed in nicely but most senators are at least smart enough to play the long game. She seems to be aiming to take in as much money as possible with the understanding that she is a one-termer. Arizona Democrats HATE her. So do independents and Republicans. She's underwater in her approval ratings in every single demo. She almost never steps foot in the state. She never meets with constituents. She won't sit for interviews with anyone who will ask her a semi-tough question.

I was talking with two Arizona political consultants about this today. The Democrat says Sinema would lose by 40 points to Ruben Gallego in the primary, so this is her only move to make it to the general in 2024. The Republican says there's a scenario where the GOP runs a hard-right kook like Lake and they manage to make Gallego look like a crazy progressive loon... and maybe Sinema threads that needle and grab votes as an independent. I don't think he really believed it.

All of this assumes she's running in 2024, of course. She hasn't said that she will, and is very intent on looking like politics is beneath her.

 

All this and she’s a hypocrite too

Kyrsten Sinema once ripped then-Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman for trying to win over Republican voters: 'What kind of strategy is that?'