Kyrsten Sinema and her team are quietly preparing for a 2024 run, pitching donors and potential supporters on how she can win the tossup Senate race. NBC reports Sinema is sharing a two-page prospectus with donors that lays out a potential path for victory, relying on “10% to 20% of Democrats, 60% to 70% of independents and 25% to 35% of Republicans.”
“Sinema must believe she’s outsmarting us by playing coy about her re-election, but it’s clear to the rest of the world that she is a typical politician focused on raising money and courting donors,” said Sacha Haworth, spokesperson for Replace Sinema. “After all, Sinema’s voting record reveals her true priority is to reward the special interests who donate to her campaign, which is why we are fighting to make this a’sher last year in the Senate.”
View Sinema’s donor prospectus in its entirety here.
NBC: Kyrsten Sinema pitches donors on a ‘path to victory’ in Arizona by courting Republicans
Sahil Kapur | September 25, 2023
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat-turned-independent, hasn’t publicly announced whether she’s running for re-election next year. But privately, her political team has been mapping out a campaign strategy, pitching donors and potential supporters on how she can win the marquee Senate race.
In a two-page prospectus obtained by NBC News, Sinema charts out a path to victory as an independent candidate in Arizona, with a glimpse of her possible campaign message and new details about the unique cross-party coalition she would seek to build in the competitive state.
Under the banner “Kyrsten’s Path to Victory,” the document says Sinema can win by attracting 10% to 20% of Democrats, 60% to 70% of independents and 25% to 35% of Republicans.
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The two-page pitch shows that even as Sinema’s team insists she isn’t focused on electoral politics, she is actively laying the groundwork for a potential independent candidacy, a wild card in a key swing state that will shape the battle for control of the Senate next year.
Notably, the document suggests Sinema will attract more votes from Arizona Republicans than Democrats, despite having been a Democrat for a decade in Congress and continuing to get her committee assignments through the Democratic Senate majority.
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