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“...it is the fact that Arizona would elect a far leftist to represent them that is troubling.”

Sinema portrayed herself as a centrist. She has spent 6 years in the House moving to the middle in preparation for this run. Her ads boasted she was #3 on the list of Democrats who voted most often with Republicans. She boasted she voted with Trump 65% of the time.

She also isn’t stupid. Whenever possible, she’ll vote with Republicans in the Senate - on anything not too important to Democrats, or where Republicans are going to win anyways. She wants to become Ms Manchin, so to speak.

Folks following the national news view Sinema as a far-left outsider. Her entire pitch to Arizona - INSIDE Arizona, where she ran while McSally tried to run from DC - was that she has grown up and in now a unifying centrist.

Here is the endorsement of the Arizona Republic (which, no one mentioned, endorsed Hillary in 2016):

“We need to get back to a saner time, when senators didn’t call each other names — or if they did, they could put it all aside after the vote and go get a beer together,” the paper’s editorial board wrote. “There is too much ‘us and them’ in D.C., and it hurts how we are governed.”

“The real Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema know that,” the board argued. “But Sinema is the only one willing to say it (repeatedly) from behind her mask.”

“In a Washington in which rancor and malice are disturbingly normal, Sinema is the antidote,” the board added. “Leaders like her can come from any party and they are needed more than ever...She has traveled a long ways from the street-marching activist she once was to the good-natured centrist she now is.”

Folks need to pay attention. Yes, the AZ Republic is now owned by USA TODAY and may never again endorse a Republican for national office. But inside Arizona - unlike on Hannity - THIS IS HOW SINEMA RAN: “the good-natured centrist she now is.” SHE NOW IS. Don’t believe it, but significantly she endorse 5000 troops on the border days before the election!

McSally was the GOP-E candidate who won 51% of the primary vote just SIX WEEKS BEFORE VOTING STARTED! She then ran a DC based campaign. Sinema did the work inside of Arizona, going on local radio. She also was able to run ads unopposed all summer!

If we want to win the next election, we need to face what happened in this one!

Yes, the AZ Republic is now owned by USA TODAY...

And Arizona is loaded with conservative retirees who still get virtually all of their political information from the morning paper.

News to Arizona Republic... Whatever Schumer tells Sinema to do, she will do.

“Whenever possible, she’ll vote with Republicans in the Senate - on anything not too important to Democrats, or where Republicans are going to win anyways. She wants to become Ms Manchin, so to speak.”

How will she vote on gun control?