sinema being primaried isn't necessarily an end of it for her

[butters]

..apparently,

Arizona has an open primary system. So non-Democratic voters would have the option to vote in that Democratic primary in 2024, which is important because even though many progressive Democrats have been highly critical of Sinema, the senator has her share of defenders among independents and Never Trump conservatives. In fact, the Senate seat that she took over in January 2019 formerly belonged to Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, a right-wing Trump critic who endorsed Joe Biden in 2020.

so, she's busy courting not only the middle-ground republicans who voted for the republican whose seat she took over but–through her opposition to President Biden's Build Back Better bill–is earning financial rewards from the big lobbyists who have vowed to keep it from passing and them having to pay more.

manchin's as bad, if not worse. is he in a similar position, with open primaries?

how crazy is a system that allows a party's own representative in its primaries to be chosen by the opposing team because they (the one up for primary) support what that opposing team wants, politically?

One of the people who spoke to The Daily Beast is Chris Herstam, a former Republican lawmaker in Arizona turned Democratic commentator who was a supporter of Simena's.

"She'd call and ask for money, but you could pick her brain and listen to her views about issues," said Herstam, who has donated thousands of dollars to Sinema. But now, things are different and they don't talk anymore after he posted some "political analysis" on Twitter.

Herstam told the Daily Beast that "when I talk to other individuals that consider themselves friends of hers, they told me they haven't spoken to her in over a year, and when they've contacted her to inquire why she's doing what she's doing politically, they don't get callbacks. She's clearly gone in a different direction."

Others spoke to the Daily Beast as well.

"A lot of people who have considered her a friend, or confidant, or someone she'd go to for donor support or political support, she won't talk to those people anymore," said Matt Grodsky, a former communications director for the Democratic Party of Arizona.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/ky...Id=1&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s

 

[Cubantripod]

how crazy is a system that allows a party's own representative in its primaries to be chosen by the opposing team because they (the one up for primary) support what that opposing team wants, politically?

Open primary allows independents to vote and they will be voting for the better candidate. it will more than offset the morons that vote for a bad candidate from another party. Additionally, it opens up the primary to third party candidates.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

It’s not surprising that liberals are following her into bathrooms and trying to intimidate her. If they want to waste money trying to primary, that’s great. She’s quite popular in AZ has nothing to fear from the left wing kooks that are so upset with her.

 

[Wrong Element]

The key to a primary challenger to Sinema is if the opposition can coalesce behind one candidate. If so, then she's screwed. There aren't going to be enough independents in the state to save her in that case, especially since her current antics seem motivated less by any sort of principle than by "Hey, look at me everybody!" And Republicans won't be motivated to cross over because they're going to have their own primary to worry about.

But if every Dem in the state with a pulse runs, then she can definitely survive in a very divided field.