Tag Archives: Kyrsten Sinema

BREAKING: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Won’t Seek Reelection

Bloomberg News reports: Independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said she won’t run for a second term, ending prospects for a turbulent three-way race in one of the nation’s most politically competitive states. Sinema, who switched her party affiliation from Democrat to independent in 2022, said she won’t run for re-election in a statement released Tuesday. Read the full article. …

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Sinema Faces Tight Deadline To Launch Reelection Bid

Axios reports: Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema faces an uphill battle and a dwindling timeline if she wants to run for re-election. The first-term senator, who left the Democratic party in 2022, has remained tight-lipped about her political future. If she decides to run, she’ll set up a rare three-way competitive contest in a race that could determine control of the …

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GOP To Run Ads Backing Sinema In AZ Senate Race

Politico reports: Senate Republicans are rolling out a provocative new strategy as they try to boost the GOP’s chances in Arizona next year: propping up incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. NRSC operatives have been fretting about polls that have shown Sinema, an independent, pulling in nearly twice as many Republican voters as Democrats in a three-way race. So in a bid …

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GOP Megadonors Dump Cash On Kyrsten Sinema

The Messenger reports: As she weighs a reelection bid, Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has garnered support from big-money donors who have given thousands of dollars to Republican committees over the past few election cycles. Sinema raised $197,400 from GOP donors who have given thousands of dollars over the years to Republican candidates and causes. Many of these donors have given …

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Sinema To Donors: I’ll Get Lots Of Republican Support

NBC News reports: In a two-page prospectus obtained by NBC News, Sinema charts out a path to victory as an independent candidate in Arizona, with a glimpse of her possible campaign message and new details about the unique cross-party coalition she would seek to build in the competitive state. Under the banner “Kyrsten’s Path to Victory,” the document says Sinema …

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Sinema Rips Senate Dems As “Old Dudes Eating Jello”

Politico reports: As she races to stockpile campaign money and post an impressive, statement-making first-quarter fundraising number, Sinema has used a series of Republican-dominated receptions and retreats this year to belittle her Democratic colleagues, shower her GOP allies with praise and, in one case, quite literally give the middle finger to President Biden’s White House. “Those lunches were ridiculous,” she …

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Sinema Has Paid Over $300K To Tulsi Gabbard’s Sister

The Daily Beast reports: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) spends more of her campaign funds on security than nearly every other member of Congress—she’s underwritten well over $560,000 for her protection since late 2021—but what’s more unusual than how much she spends is who she spends it on. According to federal campaign finance filings, Sinema’s campaign committees have paid a combined …

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Sinema: Santos Lied About Speaking To Me At SOTU

NBC News reports: Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., said in an interview on Thursday that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., consoled him after his tense exchange this week with Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, but Sinema’s office says she never spoke to Santos. Santos told Newsmax Thursday evening that after Romney lashed out at him ahead of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, …

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Manchin: I’ll Support Sinema Over Dem Challengers

The Hill reports: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Sunday he would support Sen. Kirsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) if she seeks reelection in 2024, even if the newly-independent senator is challenged by a Democrat. When asked by CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” if he would support a run by Sinema, even if another Democrat runs against her, Manchin …

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Sinema And Manchin High-Five On Filibuster At Davos

Bloomberg News reports: Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin — who foiled Democrats’ efforts to pass a voting-rights overhaul by a simple majority — shared a high-five on the stage in Davos as they reaffirmed their opposition to overturning the Senate’s filibuster rule. “We still don’t agree on getting rid of the filibuster, correct?” Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, asked Sinema. …

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Gallego Takes Next Step Towards 2024 Senate Bid

Politico reports: Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) has taken another step toward launching a 2024 challenge of newly independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Gallego has signed up the Democratic polling firm GBAO Strategies for a “leadership role” for a potential Senate bid. GBAO Strategies is fresh off a slate of victories in the general election, after working for Democratic Pennsylvania Sen.-elect John …

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Kyrsten Sinema Leaves Dems, Registers Independent

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema writes for the Arizona Republic: In catering to the fringes, neither party has demonstrated much tolerance for diversity of thought. Bipartisan compromise is seen as a rarely acceptable last resort, rather than the best way to achieve lasting progress. Payback against the opposition party has replaced thoughtful legislating. Americans are told that we have only two choices …

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Resurrected Budget Package Faces Usual Roadblocks

Roll Call reports: ​Democrats face big obstacles and a deadline measured in weeks as they attempt to salvage a scaled-down tax, climate and health care package that could give them a boost ahead of the November elections. Conversations have been underway between Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer to negotiate a budget reconciliation bill — …

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Dem Rep Rips Sinema On Filibuster After TX Massacre

The Hill reports: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Tuesday — hours after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — wrote on Twitter that she was “horrified and heartbroken” by the massacre. Just over one hour later, Rep. Ruben Gallego told Sinema to “just stop,” pointing to her stance on the filibuster, which requires bills …

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BOOK: Sinema Refused To Mask Up For Biden Meeting

The Daily Beast reports: Joe Biden doesn’t get Kyrsten Sinema and she doesn’t get him back. That appears to be the major takeaway from a new book billed as the first major account of the Biden administration.  Snippets from This Will Not Pass, from New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, include that the Democratic Arizona senator was …

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Arizona Dems Censure Sinema Over Filibuster Vote

The Arizona Republic reports: Members of the Arizona Democratic Party executive committee passed Saturday a resolution to censure Sen. Kyrsten Sinema over her vote to keep the filibuster. The closed-door vote Saturday morning came after an avalanche of anger from liberals who characterize Sinema, D-Ariz., as an obstructionist who helped doom Democrats’ chances at passing voting-rights legislation. The censure has …

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Sinema And Manchin Sink Vote On Changing Filibuster

The Associated Press reports: Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy collapsed late Wednesday when two senators refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster after a raw, emotional debate. The outcome was a stinging defeat for President Joe Biden and his party, coming at the …

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Sinema Refuses To Budge On Changing Filibuster Rules

The Independent reports: Sen Kyrsten Sinema ripped apart Democratic voters’ hopes of seeing changes to the filibuster that would allow voting rights legislation to pass in a speech on Thursday that reiterated her support for both the legislation itself and the 60-vote threshold that is keeping its passage an impossibility. In a floor speech, the Arizona Democrat portrayed the Senate’s …

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GOP Donors Are Backing Manchin And Sinema

The New York Times reports: Even as Ms. Sinema and Mr. Manchin, both Democrats, have drawn fire from the left for their efforts to shrink and reshape Mr. Biden’s proposals, they have won growing financial support from conservative-leaning donors and business executives in a striking display of how party affiliation can prove secondary to special interests and ideological motivations when …

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Sinema Opposes Dem Plan For Drug Pricing Reform

Politico reports: The White House has a new headache as it struggles to get its multitrillion-dollar party-line spending bill passed: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s objections to drug pricing reforms that are already struggling to make it through the House. The Arizona Democrat is opposed to the current prescription drug pricing proposals in both the House and Senate bills, two sources familiar …

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