Sen. Krysten Sinema's decision to leave the Democratic Party likely has less to do with how she'll vote in the Senate, and more to do with how Arizona will vote in 2024.
Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema attends a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs business meeting on Capitol Hill on Aug. 3. She is the first openly bisexual senator in U.S. history. She’s also the first to list her religion as “none.” When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered salons, Sinema was the only D.C. legislator to hide her undyed hair beneath colorful wigs.
On Friday — just days after Democrats expanded their slim 50-50 Senate majority with Sen. Raphael Warnock’s victory in the Georgia runoff — Sinema, 46, seemingly added another bullet point to her quirkiness resume when she announced in anthat she is switching her party affiliation from Democratic to independent, becoming the first U.S. senator in more than a decade to make such a move.
But while Sinema’s shift undoubtedly satisfies her unique sense of self, it’s also a plainly political maneuver. At 16, Sinema graduated as valedictorian of her high school; at 18, she graduated from Brigham Young University. She doesn’t do anything without first calculating all of the angles.
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