{"id":149528,"date":"2022-12-11T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=149528"},"modified":"2022-12-11T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T13:05:01","slug":"huge-kyrsten-sinema-leaves-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=149528","title":{"rendered":"

HUGE!!! Kyrsten Sinema Leaves The Democratic Party<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Ailan Evans
\nDAILY CALLER
\nArizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced Friday that she was leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a natural extension of my service since I was first elected to Congress, I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington and formally registering as an Arizona Independent,\u201d she wrote on Twitter Friday.<\/p>\n

Sinema has\u00a0long<\/a>\u00a0be considered one of the more centrist and bipartisan members of Congress, drawing ire from the Democratic Party for refusing to back changes to the filibuster and, along with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, preventing key legislation from being passed in the 50-50 Senate. She argued that an increasingly polarizing political environment had made substantial policy progress difficult, and that registering as an independent was the best way to represent her constituents.<\/p>\n

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