Ruben Gallego officially launched his highly anticipated bid for Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate seat Monday, setting up what will likely be a very contentious battle to represent Arizona in the upper chamber.
And he’s been very public about his distaste for Sinema, most recently after she spent MLK weekend rubbing elbows with power brokers at the annual Davos World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps, instead of in Arizona. InGallego dismissed Sinema as “tone deaf” and referred to her more headline-grabbing moments as “tacky” “performance art.” These aspersions Gallego cast last week are likely something of an amuse-bouche to his Senate campaign launch.
Gallego announced his bid with what appeared to be a veiled punch at Sinema. “We could argue different ways about how to do it, but at the core, if you’re more likely to be meeting with the powerful than the powerless, you’re doing this job incorrectly,” the congressman said in the video, seemingly a nod not only to Sinema’s Davos appearance, but herduring Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act deliberations. “I’m sorry that politicians have let you down, but I’m going to change that.
Yet it’s still a bit of an open question what kind of tone Gallego will strike over the course of the next year and a half; will he run a bitter race against the sitting senator? Speaking withlast week, Gallego gave a little window into his thinking: “There are a lot of reasons why the Democrats won in Arizona in 2022,” Gallego said. “But I will say, the one thing, the underlying thing that people aren’t pointing out is that all the nice people won their elections.
The ground is fertile in Arizona for a Senate showdown. Republicans still see Arizona as a top target, and a pathway back to the Senate majority—particularly given Sinema’s flagging popularity in the state. The stakes have only been compounded by Sinema’s
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