Most popular Democrat Senator is one opposing spending spree

 Washington Examiner:

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is bolstering her standing with rank-and-file voters in Arizona even as she infuriates local liberal activists and fellow Democrats in Congress.

Sinema this week emerged as a key Democratic obstacle to passage of a $3.5 trillion spending package that includes crucial elements of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” economic agenda. That recalcitrance has sparked grassroots efforts to fund primary challengers against Sinema in 2024, when she is up for reelection, and generated jeers from Democratic colleagues on Capitol Hill, who are attempting to seize a rare opportunity to spend trillions on domestic programs.

Sinema appears unmoved, and her dogged opposition to the size and scope of the $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” package is paying dividends back home with Arizona’s politically divided electorate.

“She is super solid and will be a senator for as long as she wants,” said a Republican operative in Arizona, requesting anonymity in order to praise a Democratic elected official. This Republican strategist has seen private polling that pegged the senator’s favorability rating at 58% favorable/32% unfavorable. “She is threading the needle.”

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You would think Democrats would get the message in this polling, but most of them are bitterly clinging to the spending spreee. 

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