Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, formerly one of the most conservative Democrats in the US Senate, has ditched her former political party, declaring herself an independent in a move that may shake the Democrats’ narrow majority in the chamber.Sinema announced her decision on Friday, days after Democrat Raphael Warnock won a Georgia run-off election solidifying the party’s control of the Senate in the next Congress, which takes office early next month.“I registered as an Arizona independent,” Sinema wrote in an op-ed published in The Arizona Republic newspaper. “Like a lot of Arizonans, I have never fit perfectly in either national party.”
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