2y ago

Sinema outraised by Gallego again, further clouding her future

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Two key Senators who haven’t announced reelection plans leave questions about their future unanswered.

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Good. She’s a traitor to her state and country. She doesn’t represent her constituents as she swore to.
- The senate oath of office says nothing about representing your constituents.
  
  “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
  What do you think the duties of the office entail?
So in American politics, all that matters is how much money you can raise?
- It's not everything, but it's like 70%
- You're just now noticing?
- It matters a lot. It’s also something for the 24-hour news cycle to report on before/instead of polling
- Not a whole lot different elsewhere in the world.
Turns out, selling out your constituency and betraying people who voted for you only has short term benefits.
If she hadn't left the party, she could count on the party's overwhelming support in the primaries, ostensibly because she's the incumbent, but actually because any challenger would be more progressive than her.
Right, right. I can fix her.
The Republican party seems to have an ethos of “any win at any cost”, which has led us to Trump. It might sting in the short term to lose a senate seat, but benefit longer term to oust someone who does you no good anyway.

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