Kyrsten Sinema to leave Senate [Video]

Independent Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has announced her decision to not run for re-election.

The Senator, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, issued a statement and an accompanying video message.

“Through listening, understanding, and compromise we delivered tangible results that make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous,” Sen. Sinema said, in the video. “Yet, despite modernizing our infrastructure, ensuring clean water, delivering good jobs and safer communities, Americans still choose to retreat farther to their partisan corners.”

Sen. Sinema also said she will be leaving the U.S. Senate ‘at the end of this year,’ but did not otherwise give a specific date.

“It has been an honor to serve Arizona for the past 20 years,” Sen. Sinema said, in the video.

Sinema’s announcement comes after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border and deliver military aid to Ukraine and Israel, which Sinema spent months negotiating. She’d hoped it would be a …