WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Arizona Senator Kirsten Sinema announced on Thursday that she was leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent. The Senate, which had secured 51 seats after Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock won a runoff in southern Georgia on Thursday, fell behind Republicans 50-50 after Cinema’s departure. will do.
“I have joined those who have declared independence from Washington’s broken partisan system and rejected the growing party politics in Arizona,” Cinema said in an op-ed to local media.