Arizona Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Martha McSally have one thing they agree on: They hate each other
by David M. Drucker
| February 14, 2019 12:01 AM
| Updated Feb 14, 2019, 09:27 AM
Months after Democrat Kyrsten Sinema outlasted Republican Martha McSally in a brutal campaign for the Senate in Arizona, their relationship is mired in acrimony.
Sinema narrowly defeated McSally in a midterm election, becoming the first Democrat in a generation to capture an Arizona Senate seat. The contest was marked by personal recriminations, with McSally accusing Sinema of treason and Sinema charging that McSally sought to block access to healthcare. Now, six weeks into the new Congress, these dynamic women barely speak, aligned only in their belief that the other crossed the line of political decency.
“They’re not friends,†Randy Pullen, former chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, told the Washington Examiner.
Sinema, 42, is the first openly bisexual member of Congress. McSally, 52, an Air Force veteran, is the first female pilot in the history of the service to fly combat missions.
But the Sinema-McSally rivalry is more than just an intriguing postscript to an unusually combative campaign.
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