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‘She did nothing’: Ruben Gallego blasts Kyrsten Sinema for letting fellow Democrats down in the midterms
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‘She did nothing’: Ruben Gallego blasts Kyrsten Sinema for letting fellow Democrats down in the midterms
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Election denialism and the Big Lie suffered yet another defeat when, on Monday night, November 14, Arizona’s gubernatorial election was called for Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. It was a close race, but in the end, Hobbs prevailed over her GOP rival: far-right Big Lie promoter and conspiracy theorist Kari Lake, who campaigned on the false and thoroughly debunked claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
Lake’s defeat follows the defeat of other MAGA candidates in Arizona, including Mark Finchem (who lost a secretary of state race to Democrat Adrian Fontes) and Blake Masters (who lost Arizona’s U.S. Senate race by about 5 percent to incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly). Lake, Finchem and Masters were all backed by Trump, ran hyper-MAGA campaigns, and lost. In 2023, Arizona — once a deep red state and a bastion of Goldwater conservatism — will have a Democratic governor, a Democratic secretary of state, and two Democratic U.S. senators: Kelly and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
2022 has been a good year for Democrats in Arizona, where Kelly will continue to occupy the U.S. Senate seat once held by Sen. John McCain and before that, Sen. Barry Goldwater (a highly influential figure among conservatives and libertarians). But according to Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Sinema shouldn’t be given any of the credit. The Democratic congressman, a vocal critic of Sinema, is arguing that she didn’t do nearly enough to help fellow Arizona Democrats in the 2022 midterms.
READ MORE: Democrat Katie Hobbs is the projected winner of Arizona’s gubernatorial race
In an article published by The New Republic on November 14, journalist Prem Thakker reports that Gallego is “going after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for being ‘nowhere to be found’ leading up to the midterm elections.” On November 13, Gallego (who was reelected in the midterms) tweeted, “We fought as a team in Arizona and we won. Senator Sinema was nowhere to be found, at all. We did not see her at one public event for anybody… she did nothing. Because she only cares about herself.”
