you refuse to admit the obvious, which is flake is +1, while sinema is -1, and +1 is better than -1 anywhere, anyplace, and anytime.
In the short term yes. In the long run it turns into the whole party doing everything they can to get that +1. This is what has happened for far too long...what do we have to do to get Flake, Collins, Murkowski. Then they do it and that fact is every bit as bad as having a Dem in that place because you move the party on the right further to the left the more you try to get that +1.