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Kyrsten Sinema Has Her First 2024 Democratic Challenger.

I love it.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJan 25, 2023
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It was only a matter of time, right?

Newly-registered independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema officially has a Democratic challenger to her seat.

Kate Sullivan and Kyung Lah with CNN writes:

“Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona on Monday announced his campaign for US Senate, setting up a potential 2024 clash with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who recently switched her party affiliation from Democrat to independent.

Gallego, a Phoenix-area congressman and retired Marine who served in Iraq, released a video of him telling a group of fellow veterans about his decision to run.

“You’re the first group of people that are hearing this besides my family. I will be challenging Kyrsten Sinema for the United States Senate, and I need all of your support,” Gallego, 43, told the group at a veterans organization in Guadalupe, Arizona…”

Oh, I love it.

I’m doing my best to take the pure emotion out of it, but wouldn’t it be nice to just get her out? Imagine a Senate without her in it, gleefully voting to continue wage theft from the American people and trying to get Mitch McConnell’s attention while she does it. It feels good to know that at the very least, organizers and…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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