According to Fox News, Republicans aren’t buying what Kyrsten Sinema is selling any more than Democrats are – putting a big damper on the path to victory Sinema’s campaign is circulating to donors. See below.
Fox News: GOP, Dems team up to rip ‘delusional’ Sinema over ‘plan’ to swipe their voters in independent reelection bid
Brandon Gillespie | September 26, 2023
Republicans and Democrats in the swing state of Arizona found themselves on the same team this week after a report that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., had formulated a “path to victory” for a potential independent reelection bid that would involve her swiping enough votes from each of the party’s candidates to come out on top.
According to the NBC News report published Monday, Sinema, a former Democrat, and her team have been putting together a campaign strategy to do just that while also pitching donors and potential supporters on her chances of winning the race as an independent.
The report included a two-page document outlining what it said was her 34% favorability rating among Republicans and that she “will win” a majority of independent voters, “at least a third” of Republican voters and “a percentage” of Democrat voters if each of the parties nominate “extremists.”
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Rick Gorka, a spokesperson for Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, the only major Republican in the race so far, told Fox that “Sinema and her team are delusional and need to spend more time in the clean air of Arizona than in D.C. if they think she has any pathway to victory.”
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One Republican operative in Arizona sought to dispel the notion that Sinema would be able to draw the significant number of GOP voters her team claimed in the report, telling Fox she was “in no way” the moderate she’s portrayed herself to be during her time in the Senate as a Democrat and since leaving the party last December.
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