Opinion: Everybody wants to know if Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will run for reelection this fall. A better question would be this: Why would she even want to?
Arizona Republic
Will she or won’t she? As we await word on whether U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will run again, it strikes me that the real question is this:
Why on earth would she want to?
Especially as she watches her border compromise — the one that features changes Republicans have long been demanding — fall apart?
Sinema was the first Arizona Democrat in three decades to win a Senate seat, having run against a tin-eared Trump ally who managed to turn off suburban Republican women and independent voters. (Sound familiar?)
Sinema came up with a decent compromise
Since then, she’s done just what she promised during that 2018 campaign. She’s charted a middle course, in search of solutions that can win bipartisan support and she’s succeeded during one of the most polarizing eras in American politics.
Then the masochist in her decided to take on the border, back when Democrats were still insisting there was no crisis. Back when Republicans were shrieking about the “invasion” on America’s southern doorstep.