Sinema leaves the Democratic Party to become an independent
On 9 December 2022 Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced that she had registered as an independent and left the Democratic Party.
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On 9 December 2022 Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced that she had registered as an independent and left the Democratic Party. She kept her committee assignments through the Democratic majority, so the move was not expected to alter the balance of power in the Senate.
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Kyrsten Sinema
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Sinema leaves the Democratic Party to become an independent. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 1.nbcnews.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: sinema+independent · verified
- 2.npr.orgchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: sinema+independent · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Sinema leaves the Democratic Party to become an independent. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sinema-leaves-democratic-party-2022-12-09
https://factrail.ai/facts/sinema-leaves-democratic-party-2022-12-09
Accessed 15 October 2026.
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