Sinema will probably be Arizona’s next John McCain. She’ll be a maverick democrat and be elected to the Senate as often as she wants. I suspect she’ll be a senator when I die of old age.
Arizona is a strange state when it comes to Senators and John McCain was the one of the strangest cases. Sinema is no McCain. She was lucky to win in an election with circumstances that foreshadowed the 2020 election. She does not have broad support with voters. John McCain was very well connected. He came from a family of military heroes and was married to very, very wealthy and ambitious wife with an unlimited taste for power and prestige. McCain used his position, his connections and his wife’s wealth to build an unbeatable political machine that had massive influence on Az state politics. It probably is not fair to say McCain owned the Az Republican Party, but McCain Machine was the states most powerful influence broker. Sinema has none of the above advantages. McCain’s public image as a maverick was nothing but media cover for his back stabbing power games and clever manipulation of swing vote power. McCain was actually the quintessential Washington smoke filled back room insider. Sinema is trying to emulate the McCain media image, not the McCain business model. Not going to work for her.