Kyrsten Sinema's Border Crusade.

Laurel Harbridge-Yong, a professor specializing in congressional politics at Northwestern University, says the current situation in Congress today may lead to a similar result for Sinema's proposed immigration bill. Both ran and entered the Senate as Democrats, but Sinema announced in December 2022 that she would be leaving the Democratic Party and switching her registration to independent. "For Kyrsten Sinema, the truth is I think that her moderate centrist kind of party-bucking ways may have actually played out fine in Arizona", Klar tells Newsweek. Since Gallego's announcement, reports of Sinema's attitude toward the Democrats have fueled further ire among members of her former party. [Extracted from the article]

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