Arizonawell was aggressively seeking to be the voice for the political middle. She's very competitive athlete, um, and so would go on early morning jogs with republican members of congress. In her incremental, you know, ground level ways, she sort of thinks that she is achieving some kind of progress. But if you look at the overall direction, the trajectory of congress during these years, you would not say that kerston cinema's policy of radically accepting her republican colleague said, actually move the ball in any way.
Tim Murphy from Mother Jones explains how Sen. Kyrsten Sinema went from a left-wing activist to a Biden obstructionist.
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