{"id":1771004,"date":"2022-12-10T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771004"},"modified":"2022-12-10T07:18:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T12:18:24","slug":"white-house-confident-sinema-leaving-party-wont-end-dems-senate-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-confident-sinema-leaving-party-wont-end-dems-senate-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Confident Sinema Leaving Party Won&#8217;t End Dems&#8217; Senate Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-confident-sinema-leaving-party-wont-end-dems-senate-majority%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediadc.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/d3a1e40\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1024x538+0+73\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediadc-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F30%2F71%2F57004ef04f06a7740588e2456684%2Fap22343626916909.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> said the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/kyrsten-sinema-leaving-democratic-party-register-independent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> by Sen. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kyrsten-sinema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyrsten Sinema<\/a> (D-AZ) to register as an <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/independent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independent<\/a> would change little for President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden&#8217;s<\/a> party in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The shake-up complicates what had appeared to be Democrats\u2019 outright majority in the Senate after <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/warnock-fends-off-walker-handing-democrats-outright-majority-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winning Georgia\u2019s runoff<\/a> on Tuesday. Sinema has said she does not intend to caucus with Republicans and expects to keep her committee assignments.<\/p>\n<p><b><u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/paul-whelan-espionage-charge-complicates-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAYS WHELAN&#8217;S ESPIONAGE CHARGE COMPLICATES HIS RELEASE<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s press secretary <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-work-successfully-defecting-sinema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> Sinema\u2019s move, saying the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> expects the principal dynamics to stay the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand her decision,\u201d Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday. \u201cThe way we see it and understand it, it does not change the new Democratic majority in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinema \u201chas voted with the president 93% of the time,\u201d Jean-Pierre said, crediting the Arizona senator as \u201ca key partner\u201d on Biden&#8217;s legislative victories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that partnership will continue. We are very confident,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Sinema gave the White House a heads-up on her decision, Jean-Pierre demurred and said the White House does not discuss private conversations with members of Congress. <\/p>\n<p>Sinema has, at times, rankled party activists by bucking Democratic leaders, and her decision could mean that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will maintain influence in Democratic negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed published Friday in the <i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/opinion\/op-ed\/2022\/12\/09\/sen-kyrsten-sinema-of-arizona-why-im-registering-as-an-independent\/69712395007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Republic<\/a><\/i>, Sinema argued that rigid partisanship was leaving people behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen politicians are more focused on denying the opposition party a victory than they are on improving Americans\u2019 lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans,\u201d Sinema wrote.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House said the decision by Sen. 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