Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democrat party, switches to Independent
Her announcement comes after Dems won a hard-fought run-off race in Georgia to secure 51 seats in the Senate.Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine -- are registered independents but generally caucus with Democrats.Democrats had held the Senate 50-50 with Vice President Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote.
Sinema said her decision to register as an independent stems from a sense that she has “never really fit into a box of any political party” — and it comes as a growing number of her constituents are also rejecting both the Republican and Democratic political labels.Sinema is up for re-election in 2024, but she would not say whether she intends to run in what is expected to be a very competitive race.
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