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Kyrsten Sinema makes history as first bisexual member of U.S. Senate
Nearly one week after Election Day, Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema was declared the apparent winner of Arizona’s nail-biter of a Senate race. In addition to a win for Democrats, Sinema’s hard-fought victory also adds to the spoils of the so-called rainbow wave that ushered in a record number of LGBTQ political candidates this year.
With the ongoing electoral drama in Florida, the Democrat Kyrsten Sinema’s come-from-behind win in the Arizona race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the Republican Jeff Flake, which was confirmed on Monday night, hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Sinema’s victory was arguably the biggest win for Democrats since Donald Trump was elected. (In last December’s special election in Alabama, the Republicans ran an unelectable candidate.) It puts a different gloss on the results of the midterms. And it has important implications for 2020 and beyond.
Last Tuesday night, as the early returns came in, it seemed like the Democrats were heading for a narrow victory in the House and the Republicans were on course for a decisive win in the Senate. Donald Trump and other Republicans quickly seized on this narrative, which emerged before the number of Democratic pickups in the House became clear—the figure is now thirty-two, and may well go higher—and also before the results came in from Senate races in Nevada, where the Democratic challenger Jacky Rosen defeated the Republican incumbent Dean Heller by five percentage points, and Montana, where the embattled Democratic incumbent Jon Tester fought off a strong challenge from the Republican Matt Rosendale. Now Sinema’s triumph has been added to the mix.
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