“She is level-headed and brilliant, but she will stop at nothing and step on anyone to get what she wants,” her former colleague wrote on Twitter.
A one-time colleague and friend of Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema publicly derided her decision to leave the Democratic Party on Friday morning, describing the former social worker and progressive firebrand as a “hypocrite” willing to “abandon values and friendships to climb to the top.”
Sinema announced Friday she would become an independent over a myriad of disagreements with the platforms of both major parties, and to inspire people’s belief that politics can transcend political tribalism.
“This Senate seat doesn’t belong to Democratic or Republican bosses in Washington. It doesn’t belong to one party or the other, and it doesn’t belong to me. It belongs to Arizona, which is far too special a place to be defined by extreme partisans and ideologues,” Sinema wrote in an op-ed for the Arizona Republic Friday morning.”
Some didn’t see it that way.
Others called the unpopular Senator’s decision to leave the party just days after its consequential victory in the Georgia runoff election between Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a matter of self-preservation ahead of a contentious 2024 election, allowing her to dodge the prospect of a primary challenge by threatening to divide the candidate field and allow a Republican to win.
“Ditching the Democratic Party has nothing to do with ugly partisan games but everything to do with Sen.
