ABC News made a perplexing analysis over the weekend, suggesting Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema had taken a “hard turn to the right” by resisting the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending spree.
“Once a staunch progressive, Arizona’s senior senator has taken a hard turn to the right,” ABC tweeted. “This appears to be an attempt by her to become more popular through attracting moderate and conservative voters.”
An associated link led viewers to a FiveThirtyEight article – a subsidiary of ABC News – which attempted to explain why she had suddenly shifted her political views to the right.
The article proceeds to explain that Sinema (D-AZ) has “established such a firm anti-progressive reputation” that she may be endangering her own reelection by turning off Democrats.
They suggest that she, like West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, has voted with former President Trump “more often than expected.”
Once a staunch progressive, Arizona’s senior senator has taken a hard turn to the right. On the surface, that appears to have been an effort to make her more electable by courting moderate and conservative voters.
You could be overcompensating her. https://t.co/nycEK35dBg pic.twitter.com/3SWouXn03q
— ABC News (@ABC) October 11, 2021
RELATED: Progressive Activists Stalk And Record Video Outside Kyrtsen Sinema’s Bathroom Stall
ABC News Paints Kyrsten Sinema as ‘Hard Right’
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The ABC News report painting Kyrsten Sinema as going ‘hard right’ received a fair amount of pushback, not the least of which involved a FiveThirtyEight analysis itself.
The group reports that the Arizona Democrat votes with President Biden “100%” of the time and approved every single one of his nominees.
Some of those nominees have been extraordinary ‘hard left’ selections.
Tracy Stone-Manning was nominated to Director of Bureau of Land Management. Stone-Manning has ties and ties to ecoterrorism. Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services is Xavier Becerra. Becerra recently defended federal government door-to-door efforts to press Americans to receive the COVID vaccine.
Obviously voting records aren’t everything, but voting with Biden 100% of the time (per 538 tracker), including on all Biden nominees, is an unusual record for a straight-news story to describe as having taken a “hard turn to the right.”https://t.co/Z6r0P7R7h9
— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) October 11, 2021
RELATED: Arizona Democratic Party Goes After Sen. Kyrsten Sinema For Opposing Massive Spending Bills
He Stalks Her Like A Republican
Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is causing quite a bit of consternation amongst Democrats.
The left is not going to allow you to go against your spending habits for the party.
And while Sinema’s record doesn’t indicate she’s taken a “hard turn to the right,” she’s certainly being treated as if she is a Republican, as evidenced by a spate of stalkings involving ‘hard left’ activists.
Last weekend, a group of progressive activists followed Senator Sinema into a bathroom and then recorded her as they stood outside her stall protesting immigration reform and her opposition to Democrats’ economic agenda.
🔴BREAKING: Blanca, a young immigrant in Arizona confronts @SenatorSinemaInside her classroom at ASU, where she is a teacher. “in 2010 both my grandparents got deported bc of SB1070…my grandfather passed away 2 wks ago & I wasn’t able to go to Mexico bc there is no pathway to citizenship.” pic.twitter.com/JDZYY2fOD2
— LUCHA Arizona (@LUCHA_AZ) October 3, 2021
She was accosted on a plane shortly thereafter by another unruly activist and ‘DREAMer.’
A DACA recipient named Karina tried to ask Kyrsten Sinema if she’d support a pathway to citizenship for immigrants and Sinema refused to answer.
If Karina was a corporation and held a giant fundraiser for Sinema, maybe she’d get an answer. pic.twitter.com/DPbPuUe8yl
— jordan (@JordanUhl) October 4, 2021
Sinema was again the target of activists this weekend, when she participated in the Boston Marathon. However, they failed to succeed this time as Senator Sinema had to withdraw due to an injury to her foot.
We’re here at the #BostonMarathonWith @SunriseTempeAsking others for assistance in AZ @SenatorSinemaTo stop running from her constituents. Listen! #StopRunningSinema & pass the full Build Back Better plan NOW! https://t.co/qt42D8rpx2
— AZ Working Families Party (@AZ_WFP) October 11, 2021
Portraying Kyrsten Sinema as ‘hard right’ is a media tactic designed to stir up these protesters and pressure the Arizona Democrat into caving to the party’s extremist agenda.
ABC News will carry water for DNC.
Journalism isn’t water-carrying. 🔂 https://t.co/kCtZrqSl59
— Elliott Hamilton (@ElliottRHams) October 11, 2021
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