Sen. Sinema cites a 'crossroads' in American politics that has pushed people to their 'partisan corners'
PHOENIX — Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced Tuesday that she won’t run for a second term after her estrangement from the Democratic Party left her politically homeless and without a clear path to reelection.
Sinema’s decision avoids a three-way contest in one of the most closely watched 2024 Senate races, a hard-to-forecast scenario that spawned fierce debate among political operatives about whether one major party would benefit in the quest for the Senate majority. Most analysts agreed Sinema had faced significant, likely insurmountable hurdles if she’d decided to run.
In 2022, Senator Sinema, then registered as a Democrat, announced that she had registered as an Independent. In October 2023, Kari Lake, who filed paperwork to officially run for Sinema's US Senate seat, released the following statement on X, formerly known as Twitter:
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