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    1. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 6 Apr 2021

      b-boy bouiebaisse Retweeted Ben Pershing

      would love someone to ask Sinema why she even wants to be a senatorhttps://twitter.com/benpershing/status/1379421431281369089 …

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      Ben PershingVerified account @benpershing
      Kyrsten Sinema tells @elizacollins1 why she won't budge on scrapping or even changing the filibuster rule: “When you have a place that’s broken and not working, and many would say that’s the Senate today, I don’t think the solution is to erode the rules.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/kyrsten-sinema-defends-filibuster-as-pressure-mounts-from-progressives-11617714005?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter …
      157 replies 701 retweets 6,831 likes
    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Apr 2021
      Replying to @jbouie

      Betting the answer is: so she can become president.

      4 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    3. Dan Pfeiffer‏Verified account @danpfeiffer 6 Apr 2021
      Replying to @yeselson @jbouie

      True of most senators, but this a very stupid way to achieve that goal unless she plans to run on the Innovation Party ticket

      2 replies 1 retweet 46 likes
    4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Apr 2021
      Replying to @danpfeiffer @jbouie

      I’m not arguing with that. But I will say that, given that state, she has been a very canny Dem pol and she probably figures she knows how to play this. And that her hipster ID will help her with young people. But she might not know her own self interest! Ds will never nominate a

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Apr 2021
      Replying to @yeselson @danpfeiffer @jbouie

      Judging by opinion polls in Arizona, she's misjudging her state (where Kelly is more popular than she is)

      11:36 AM - 6 Apr 2021
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        2. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper 6 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @yeselson and

          30 percent unfavorability among AZ Dems https://www.azfamily.com/news/politics/arizona_politics/new-poll-shows-kyrsten-sinemas-moderate-approach-has-weakened-democratic-support/article_1382a9d2-8b2a-11eb-932c-638572f0a9a6.html …

          8 replies 19 retweets 82 likes
        3. Sir Humphrey  🇺🇦‏ @bdquinn 6 Apr 2021
          Replying to @ryanlcooper @HeerJeet and

          Yeah, she pissed off the base on an issue that they care about way more than the GOP or indies do. It was a big miscalculation.

          0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 6 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @danpfeiffer @jbouie

          She might well be, I’m not saying otherwise. But she must figure that she’s pretty clever to be a bisexual secularist who became the first Dem senator elected there since DeConcini. I hope she figured out how her self interest aligns with the national party here.

          2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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