Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she won't seek reelection, avoiding a 3-way race

[BumRushDaShow]

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Source: AP

Updated 4:56 PM EST, March 5, 2024


PHOENIX (AP) — Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced on 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 announcement comes after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border and deliver military aid to Ukraine and Israel — a deal that Sinema spent months negotiating. She had hoped it would be a signature achievement addressing one of Washington’s most intractable challenges as well as a powerful endorsement for her increasingly lonely view that cross-party dealmaking remains possible.

But in the end, Sinema’s border-security ambitions, and her career in Congress, were swallowed by the partisanship that has paralyzed Congress. “I love Arizona and I am so proud of what we’ve delivered,” she said in a video posted to social media. “Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year.”

Sinema’s decision avoids a three-way contest in one of the most closely watched 2024 Senate races. That hard-to-forecast scenario had 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 had decided to run.

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Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she won't seek reelection, avoiding 3-way race

Updated 2:30 PM EST, March 5, 2024


PHOENIX (AP) — 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 announcement comes after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border and deliver military aid to Ukraine and Israel, which Sinema spent months negotiating. She’d hoped it would be a signature achievement addressing one of Washington’s most intractable challenges, as well as a powerful endorsement for her increasingly lonely view that cross-party dealmaking remains possible.

But in the end, Sinema’s border-security ambitions, and her career in Congress, were swallowed by the partisanship that has paralyzed Congress.

“I love Arizona and I am so proud of what we’ve delivered,” she said in a video posted to social media. “Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year.”

[Probatim]

1. Now that she might have to work hard to get re-elected, she bails.

Better for the country in the long run but I think it's further proof for a lot of us - she was in this for the attention and once that faded, so did she.

[peppertree]

26. True - but as anyone could've told her, this movie had a predictable ending

(you know - Sinema)

[Bev54]

2. Yes! No doubt she thinks she can make even more money outside.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. Good riddance to rotten rubbish. She'll take a board seat and shill for the venture capitalists that she saved from

paying taxes. To hell with her. On greased skids. Her schtick was tiresome anyway.

[mpcamb]

4. "I am so proud of what we've delivered,".... That's a baffling comment!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. She did just deliver - Ruben Gallego to the Senate!

[PortTack]

8. So she did one thing good!

[agingdem]

21. who is this "we" shit???

Sinema, a middle school mean girl, delivered for Mitch McConnell...her ridiculous "look at me/look at me" outfits (a cross between Minnie Mouse (pre-pants)/Betty Boop/Cruella de Vil), her Senate buffoonery, teaming up with Joe Manchin to derail Biden's agenda, and abandoning her party/her constituents defined her and was her downfall...she will not be missed

[AZ8theist]

45. Sinema the Circus Clown:

[Bev54]

5. Does anyone have any info on those dems running for senator in Maryland?

Now that Hogan is running in the republican primary, people need to work really hard to hold that seat democratic.

[brush]

6. How does it work with campaign donations/war chest? Does she get to keep...

those funds?

IMO that's maybe what explains her silly, one-term Senate career where she torpedoed her own party's agenda so often.

She must've gotten rich and knew she had no chance at getting re-elect after the bait-and-switch actions she took against her party.

[PortTack]

9. I don't think she gets to keep them since they have to be spent on a campaign

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Here's a good primer

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/042716/what-happens-campaign-funds-after-elections.asp

[whopis01]

27. There was a very well placed ad when I read that article

It really took me a moment to figure out what was going on.
I was sat there thinking "they can just put it in a new account? wtf?"

[BumRushDaShow]

30. I run several adblock programs so don't get any from there

[machoneman]

11. So, the beotch threw herself out. Good riddance, traitor! Watch her shill now for TFG.

[Efilroft Sul]

10. The ghost of John Lewis sends his regards.

[Aristus]

12. Independent. Good term for someone who is only in it for herself.

Doesn’t have the courage or political direction to pick a party.

[samsingh]

14. Good riddance

she may end up in Russia

[ffr]

15. Lead strikes again. Pb can do really bad things to human brain development. Kyrsten Sinema is proof

[JoseBalow]

16. Adios, Fucko!

[DFW]

17. Say hello to Senator Gallego!

I know I shouldn't jinx things by saying so (except that I've already told him so!). I just don't think Putin has enough in his treasury to throw this one, and nor do the Trumpanzees.

[onetexan]

61. K&R!! Allego w do a good job as senator!

[DFW]

62. I agree.

I talked with him at length last year on a number of subjects, hope to meet up again next month in DC. What he knows, he knows well, and what he doesn't know, he is aware of it, and is willing to learn. I see him serving three terms at least, and he should make a great Arizona Democratic Senate team with Mark Kelly.

[Mountainguy]

18. Kind of funny

If the Republicans killing the border bill convinced her to get out then they delivered a major blow to their majority hopes.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Feel good news.

[Harker]

20. That's a very condescending and self serving goodbye note.

Her planned departure is welcome news.

[Ray Bruns]

22. Well, bye.

https://m.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. Beat me to it.

[CatWoman]

52. one of my favorite scenes from that movie

[Deep State Witch]

24. Bye, Felicia!

Take your wardrobe and get out.

[blueknight73]

25. She saw the wring on the wall

My son lives in Phoenix and is very active in the Democratic party. He said she knew she had a ZERO chance of getting re-elected.

[ZonkerHarris]

28. Now she gets to keep all that money she raised.

[drray23]

42. no. does not work that way.nt.

[ZonkerHarris]

44. unless they are designated as "surplus funds." There's always a loophole.

https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Campaign%20Manuals/Manual_2/Manual_2_Ch_5_Use_of_Campaign_Funds.pdf

[Oopsie Daisy]

29. I could see her being elected to the House of Representatives *

* and it always amazed me that she was a Senator.

[NNadir]

31. Good.

[Cheezoholic]

32. Not surprising at all. She's a K St. Queen in the making. She never did give a shit about anything but cash n/t

[ColinC]

33. Today is a good day

[onecaliberal]

34. Outstanding.

[ornotna]

35. By Kyrsten

[Hermit-The-Prog]

36. Lay the paralysis where it belongs -- GOP refused a bill GOP negotiated.

It is typical to blame "Congress" when the root is Gingrich GOP.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. Since you invoked his name

I saw this earlier today - https://apnews.com/article/newt-gingrich-tulane-university-congressional-papers-3398ec872b0d2963962ad14f82d52ffa



(I guess like Turtle, "his work is done" - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED)

[Hermit-The-Prog]

38. Just like MoscowMitch, that slimey Newt worked to destroy political discourse.

Those two were dedicated to gaining power to their party regardless of cost to people.

[TwilightZone]

40. Gingrich

To some, it seems that the current GOP strategy is relatively new, starting with obstruction in the Obama era or the era of Trump. It's not new, of course. It's the Gingrich playbook taken to new extremes. Gingrich learned from Lee Atwater and others.

The Contract on America lives.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

41. Jacketoff Gym Jordan and others learned from the newt...

Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia was a rising star in the GOP by 1987, either despite or because of his aggressive political tactics toward other members. Almost as soon as the Georgian had entered the House in 1979, he began making ethics charges against colleagues for alleged improprieties, notably against Barney Frank and Charles C. Diggs. In addition to personally spearheading these investigations, he transformed the speech of the political right from pointed rhetoric to sheer vitriol, referring to past and present Democratic speakers of the House as “crooks,” “traitors,” and “thugs.” This kind of personal attack against the opposition and even fellow Republicans would be seen again and again in the rise of other ambitious politicians in the years ahead.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-inside-story-of-how-newt-gingrich-single-handedly-destroyed-congress

[Demovictory9]

39. Now get lost.

[Evolve Dammit]

43. Were you ever really here my dear ? I think not

[Snackshack]

46. The irony...

she's is an idiot... did she really think she was going to get a pass with the "F off" ring and obtuse curtsey she gave w/ her wannabe "mavericky" thumbs down vote killing minimum wage or then changing affiliation.

Once you trash your own word you might get a chance to redeem yourself once depending on the pool you swim in but you can never be trusted again and will be PNG'd at the 1st available opportunity.

[IronLionZion]

47. I guess she's too much of a maverick for Arizona

and got enough lobbyist money to buy plenty of cute outfits. She looked at her own ring and it told her to F off.

[NBachers]

48. I don't think I would've written her political obituary the way it was written in the article above.

I actually used to donate to her when she was a new Democrat running in Arizona. What a disappointment!

I'm celebrating by donating to Ruben Gallego: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/to_ruben

[BumRushDaShow]

49. I remember hoping she would defeat McSally

as we needed that seat. And now here we are today.

Am ecstatic that Gallego doesn't have to worry about that split vote.

[AZLD4Candidate]

50. Goodbye, you snake. I voted for you because Martha McSally was a nightmare and you turned out to be

just as bad.

Go follow other Democratic turncoats and whine about them on Fox News.

Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you.

[Glamrock]

51. Bye Felicia....

?si=H7JspbTwtCpTIanq

[Desert Dog]

53. Tick Tock Mo Fo

At 12:01p on January 3rd.. KS will finally disappear. I am sure there will be antics, but I look forward to never giving her another thought.

The political career of Sinema will be the standard on which all political sell outs will be compared. What a profound disappointment she was. She bet on the GOP compromising! Gosh darn she was a fool. She gave up her party, potential and place in history for nothing!.. but a wad of cash. There will never be a political sell out like her. At a time when women's rights and voting rights were taking a huge hit, she was awol. Worse than that, she started supporting the other team! She could have been a leader.

I hope other Democrats who are watching this truly see the reality. IF you abandon your party and publicized beliefs, you will be ousted. She was even betting on moderation from so called AZ independents.. Fool I say! I suspect many independents in AZ are fairly conservative and are either Libertarian in beliefs or are embarrassed being associated with state GOP.

[Desert Dog]

55. Future and campaign money status

While she loves to bash Dems, and Fox loves that.. I believe she will not do a TV gig. Her history is running from the media and she was very rarely on network news shows as a commentator. I don't know enough about lobbying, but who will take her calls?

I think she will chill and enjoy her wine. Maybe a college type gig? She did keep teaching while she was a senator. Is that enough attention for her?

I think her future is writing a book. Then she will time the release for 2028 election. She will go with the both sides suck babble - in a none incumbent election. She will travel the US running as an independent FOR PRESIDENT - promoting her book at every stop. That jives with her ego and exaggerated view of self worth. The book will be spicy and have lots of bits to get media attention. This is her way of getting attention and converting that old campaign money to book sales.

[The Grand Illuminist]

54. A fair and just one on one contest

is what it's supposed to be. Good for her to drop out.

[LudwigPastorius]

56. "...what we've (sic) delivered,"

You mean performance art while fucking over working class people?

[tinrobot]

57. She's not into 3-ways?

Had no idea.

[dalton99a]

58. Despicable piece of shit con artist.

[Wednesdays]

59. Ohhh...

[DemocraticPatriot]

60. GOOD! Now ADIOS !!!

:::curtsies:::