ABC News says Kyrsten Sinema has 'taken a hard turn to the right' for resisting Dem spending spree
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ABC News raised eyebrows for claiming that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., has “taken a hard turn to the right” as she continues to resist the $3.5 trillion spending spree being pushed by her Democratic colleagues.
"Manchin’s centrism is unsurprising: He has been a conservative Democrat his entire career, and his home state of West Virginia is so red that it might be politically impossible for him to move left, even if he wanted to. But neither is true of Sinema," FiveThirtyEight senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich wrote. "Once a staunch progressive, Arizona’s senior senator has taken a hard turn to the right. On the surface, that appears to have been an effort to make her more electable by courting moderate and conservative voters. If so, she may have overcompensated: Arizona is no West Virginia, and no other swing-state senator has vexed Democratic leadership so thoroughly. In fact, Sinema’s established such a firm anti-progressive reputation that she may have lost the support of enough Democrats to endanger her reelection just the same."
The article went on to demonstrate how Sinema voted with former President Trump "more often than expected" among Democratic senators, tying with Manchin at 50.4%.