Sen. Sinema Gets 2024 Challenger After Leaving Democrat Party

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) speaks during the Senate Finance Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 19, 2021. Mandel Ngan/Pool/Getty Images

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Jan. 23 announced a challenge to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), who recently left the Democrat Party. In his campaign announcement he painted Sinema as an advocate for “the rich and powerful.”

“If you’re more likely to be meeting with the powerful than the powerless, you’re doing this job incorrectly,” he said.