Independent senator Kyrsten Sinema will not seek re-election in Arizona

The Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema announced on Tuesday that she will not run for re-election this year.

“I love Arizona and I am so proud of what we’ve delivered. Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, and working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year,” Sinema said in a video shared on X.

The now independent senator won her seat in 2018 as a Democrat. She was the first non-Republican to win a Senate seat for Arizona since 1994. She’d go on in December 2022 to announce her leave from the Democratic party to become an independent.

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