Kristen Sinema switches from Democrat to Independent, Changing Up Majority Democrat Senate

[RamsayBolton]

Sinema switches to independent, shaking up the Senate

The Arizona senator won't say whether she's running for reelection but said in an interview she doesn't expect a change in how the Senate operates.

www.politico.com

Right after Warnock defeated Walker and made Dems 51-49 in Senate

In a 45-minute interview, the first-term senator told POLITICO that she will not caucus with Republicans and suggested that she intends to vote the same way she has for four years in the Senate. “Nothing will change about my values or my behavior,” she said.

Provided that Sinema sticks to that vow, Democrats will still have a workable Senate majority in the next Congress, though it will not exactly be the neat and tidy 51 seats they assumed. They’re expected to also have the votes to control Senate committees. And Sinema’s move means Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — a pivotal swing vote in the 50-50 chamber the past two years — will hold onto some but not all of his outsized influence in the Democratic caucus.




Sinema would not address whether she will run for reelection in 2024, and informed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of her decision on Thursday.

Current theory is that she's doing this so Democrats have a harder time getting rid of her in AZ. If they run someone against her, itll be D, then Sinema, then R, and split the vote and give it over to a republican. Basically she's saying it's me or give AZ to the republicans.

Vile human

 

[voiture]

Selfish but that's politics

 

[tuckgod]

 

[Dre God]

Gonna be hard to top this good news.

Liberal coli shills lawst.

 

[CP3.]

You shouldn't be allowed to do this without holding an election.

How many people voted for Sinema because they wanted to vote Democrat?

It's basically cheating people out of what they actually voted for.

 

[Spence]

Honestly, if she’s going to pull that fk shyt hand AZ to the republicans for 6 years just to get this bytch out the paint

 

[KRayner]

fukk that bytch

someone leak her nudes

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

You shouldn't be allowed to do this without holding an election.

How many people voted for Sinema because they wanted to vote Democrat?

It's basically cheating people out of what they actually voted for.

But hey, your vote counts!

 

[tuckgod]

Gonna be hard to top this good news.

Liberal coli shills lawst.

More coming

 

[Elim Garak]

This woman ain't been nothing but a piece of shyt her entire Senate term. That's why I wanted 52 smh.

 

[Micky Mikey]

Trash ass bytch. Can't wait til she gets primaried.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Sinema was going to lose Arizona anyways during the next election and that was always going to be obvious. She’s just getting paid for it on her way out the door. It’s been clear a long while now that she’s on the Republicans payroll to be a nuisance to Democrats.

 

[OfTheCross]

President Manchin byke

 

[Hoshi_Toshi]

evil white women doing their usual shyt

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Gonna be hard to top this good news.

Liberal coli shills lawst.

Establish loving dems told me she was needed for other votes. This the same bih that literally avoided her constituents so much, that constituents had to chase her in a bathroom to get answers.