Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego says he will run for the Arizona U.S. Senate seat currently held by centrist Sen. Sinema, who left the Democratic Party in December to become an independent.
“As a Marine, I never back down from a fight and in the Senate, I’ll fight to make sure every Arizonan has the same chance that I had at the American Dream,” Gallego said in a statement.
If she runs, it could become a three-way race in the general election, with Republicans sure to field a nominee. Some DemocratsIn his statement Monday, Gallego said: “The problem isn’t that Senator Sinema abandoned the Democratic Party — it’s that she’s abandoned Arizona. She’s repeatedly broken her promises and fought for the interests of big pharma and Wall Street at our expense. I’m running for the U.S.
On the Republican side, a source close to failed governor candidate Kari Lake said that “many people are urging her to run” but that she is “very invested in the legal battle” over the race she lost in the midterm elections. And Mark Lamb, the Pinal County sheriff, is also considering a Senate run in 2024, said an Arizona Republican source.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images fileSinema became the first Democrat in 30 years to get elected to the Senate from Arizona in 2018. In recent years, she has cut numerous bipartisan deals and broke with President Joe Biden on some of his top priorities, like higher tax rates for the wealthy,to pass a federal voting rights law and raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
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