Ruben Gallego Will Jeporadize Arizona Senate Seat Over Feud With Kyrsten Sinema!

Ruben Gallego runs a sacrifice play for the senate.

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has announced he will challenge Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and the potential Republican challenger for the 2024 Arizona senate race. He will literally put his seat and a senate seat at risk because he mad that Sinema is too cozy to big donors.

Stupid decision given that Gallego is allied with populism similar to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Gallego could drive Arizonans to vote Republican with his brand of noise.

I for one would rather deal with Sinema. She stands with Biden about 91% of the time.

When it comes to fiscal spending and the repeal of the filibuster, she opposes. She also stated that she wants to work with Republicans to get things done. Arizona wants moderate or straight shooters. 

Not Kari Lake, Blake Masters and numerous noise makers.

I guess if President Joe Biden endorses either candidate, it could be a benefit or an anchor.

Sinema who went independent shortly after Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) defeated Herschel Walker in December had went to above and beyond to angering Democrats. She was a formal censure from the Arizona state Democrats and a boycott of fundraising.

Sinema sucks but Gallego is just about worst. He could cost a seat if Sinema wins and leaves the Democratic caucus or a Republican can win because the voters could split.

Sinema said at the time that she changed her party affiliation because she "never fit neatly into any party box", but the label switch prompted an immediate backlash from many Democrats, including Gallego. 

Democratic sources close to Gallego say the Marine veteran plans to launch his Senate campaign with a video, in both Spanish and English on Monday and then launch a national media tour to promote his announcement.

"There have been some senators that have encouraged me to run," Gallego said. "There are some senators, some of Sen. Sinema's colleagues, that are encouraging me to run." 

Gallego did not identify the senators who prodded him to jump into the Senate race, but he believes those senators would "absolutely" support his Senate bid.

Sanders, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are three white populist senators. They often interfere in Democratic primaries by endorsing candidates that stand no chance of winning in a general. Wisconsin was an easy grab but former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes got too close to Sanders and his ilk of noise over substance. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), a do nothing avowed white nationalist easily won on the noise.

Biden does get annoyed by Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. However, he sees them as valuable assets in getting bipartisan bills passed.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was lucky. Had David McCormick, Kathy Barnette or Sean Parnell, the original candidate won the nomination, he would have lost. Fetterman was the definition of white leftist noise. He hid his stroke, had an army of Bernie Bros. take down Conor Lamb and allowed weak candidate Malcolm Kenyatta split the Black vote. Fetterman pulling a gun on a Black jogger should have doomed him but given Mehmet Oz and his idiocy, Fetterman won.

Sinema has yet to announce whether she is going to run for reelection in 2024.

Gallego, who is of Mexican and Colombian descent, currently chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' BOLD PAC, an increasingly influential fundraising vehicle for Latino congressional Democrats. He has said he plans to pursue the support of young voters, progressive and Latino voters in the battleground state of Arizona. In his interview with Costa in December, Gallego said he thought his bid could help President Joe Biden's own reelection prospects in the state.

"I will say this: If I was running for president in Arizona in 2024, I would want to be with someone that would be proud to be going on stage with him and going to every part of Arizona," Gallego said in his interview w/ CBS in December. "More importantly, getting out the crucial Latino vote. Time will tell what the calculations are over there. I don't need to pressure them. They're certainly not pressuring me. But I know what a strong candidate I am and can be."

But Gallego's bid comes with potential risks for Democrats, who are defending at least 23 seats in the 2024 cycle. Arizona's voters are almost evenly split three ways between Democrats, Republicans and independents and as 2022 election results prove, the Grand Canyon State's residents still narrowly favor moderate candidates. Gallego's more outspoken, strident views on issues like economics, immigration and health-care clash with Sinema's centrist approach that has earned praise from Republicans who say she's been a key moderating force in the evenly divided Senate.