about kyrsten sinema is she has a tremendous facility for getting attention and did very well with this announcement which came just a few days after democrats were celebrating reverend warnock s victory in georgia. it seemed like she was raining on their parade. as i said in the piece it is more of a drizzle than a downpour and i don t think it will have that big an effect. in the short term it does royal arizona politics however and that will be a conundrum for democrats in 2024 when her seat comes up. it certainly does stymie efforts to have a primary against her that liberal democrats might want. well, i think she would have lost that primary. i mean, one thing that is a backdrop is senator sinema s numbers in the state are pretty close to disastrous. she has a majority of she has unified republicans, democrats, and independents who all have a negative view of her with democrats more negative than republicans. there was already a challenger,
putative challenger, rueben gallego who was going to run from the left and challenge her in the primary. i think she was in real danger of losing that primary. others, greg stanton, another congressman, mayor of phoenix, was looking at that as well. so it is smart of her to do this. she had a lot of problems. it seems smart then of her to do this. no? yeah. i mean, it may have been necessary for her to do it and, yes. it may be smart. i don t know that she can win a race as an independent. she can create a lot of mischief. i think the real question is does she run in 2024 or sort of cash out of this and choose a different life after her one term in the senate? i think that s very possible. and she said she d approached chuck schumer about keeping her committee assignments and he agreed and i should point out she refused to commit to
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