Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announced on Tuesday that she will not seek a second term, setting her Democratic and GOP challengers up for a two-way race.
comes after nearly a year of speculation about her political future. Should Sinema have chosen to run, the race would have put Sinema’s theory that most voters have also spurned their party identity to the test. Polls indicated it would be an uphill climb for an independent to build enough of a centrist coalition to win statewide.
“Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year.” Sinema had continued to fundraise this year despite not launching her 2024 campaign, leading to even more questions about her reelection plans. ascended to the White House and Democrats barely clinched control of the Senate with the help of Vice President tiebreaking vote. Despite Harris’s vote, which she has in the vice president’s capacity as president of the Senate, Democrats lacked a filibuster-proof majority that would allow them to pass most legislation through the body.
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