Wednesday, May 15

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema bats down becoming a member of GOP: ‘You don’t go from one damaged celebration to a different’

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona impartial who final 12 months ditched the Democratic Party, dominated out Sunday the concept she’d ever be a part of the GOP.

Despite dropping the ‘D’ beside her identify, Ms. Sinema nonetheless caucuses with Democrats, permitting them to have a one-seat majority within the Senate.

“I’m laughing because I literally just spent time explaining how broken the two parties are,” she mentioned in a uncommon interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “You don’t go from one broken party to another.”

Ms. Sinema’s interview marks a departure from her longtime refusal to talk to reporters on Capitol Hill. But it comes as she faces lengthy reelection odds subsequent 12 months as an impartial, in accordance with polls. 

She defended her work as an impartial, arguing that her time spent crafting bipartisan offers in Washington might be rewarded by voters again dwelling.

“Arizonans know this, that over the last two years in addition to being unwilling to march along the party line as I was told to do, what I did instead, was forge meaningful bipartisan relationships with folks across the political spectrum and passed incredible legislation that has changed the lives of Arizonans and will continue to do so for years to come,” Ms. Sinema mentioned.

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