Democratic Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer calls Kyrsten Sinema ‘a sold out’

She’s running for office thousands of miles from Arizona, but that hasn’t stopped Abby Finkenauer from calling out one of the state’s Democratic senators.

Finkenauer, a former congressman and Democratic candidate for the Senate in Iowa, called Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) “sold out” on Thursday, in response to Sinema’s announcement on Senate floor that she will not support changing filter rules to pass a law on voting rights.

While the Democrats “technically” have control of the Senate, Finkenauer said in a video on Twitter, “We had a sold-out in Kyrsten Sinema, who was there for some reason I don’t know, but she really refused to do anything for working families like the one I grew up in. . I don’t know if she’s forgotten where she comes from or who she’s there to fight for, but it’s time for us to expand the Democratic majority.”

Finkenauer, a moderate aiming to oust Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in November, said in a follow-up tweet that if she joins the Senate, “I will vote for filibuster reform to pass pass voting rights legislation, and provide progress to working families that Republicans like Senator Grassley are preventing.” Axios Note that in addition to Finkenauer, several Democrats running for the Senate are now promising to support related changes, including Representative Val Demings (D-Fla.). Demings told supporters in a campaign email sent Tuesday that she would be “the 50th voting Democrat to need to end voting and pass voting rights protections.” .”

While Finkenauer may not be a fan of Sinema, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Again – he welcomed Sinema’s Thursday speech, “It was hugely important and she, as an act of conspicuous political courage, saved the Senate into an institution,” told reporters.