Kyrsten Sinema’s independence from her party isn’t unique. But she doesn’t share the ideological motives of most recent party-switchers
, her gambit probably had more to do with raising her 2024 reelection prospects than giving her more leverage in the Senate.
Joe Lieberman was a different matter. A Democratic senator from Connecticut dating back to 1988, and the 2000 Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Lieberman battled often with progressives and lost the Democratic Senate nomination to Ned Lamont . But Lieberman won the general election as an independent. Partly out of pique at the Democrats who didn’t support him, Lieberman remained independent during his last term in the Senate, though he continued to caucus with Democrats as he always had.
Sinema has now joined Sanders and King as independents who caucus with Senate Democrats. Aside from her deliberate positioning as someone willing to break party ranks and vote with Republicans, the main thing that distinguishes the Arizonan from the rest of the group is the . He moved to Florida to begin a new career in real estate. It’s possible Sinema is headed for a change of scenery or career.Sinema really isn’t much like the most common Senate Democrats who left their party. At lower levels of elected office, there was a big wave of conservative Democrats beginning in the 1960s who defected from the party after its firm commitment to civil rights, mostly migrating directly into a newly friendly GOP. Three U.S.
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