Democrat Kyrsten Sinema wins the Arizona Senate race

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🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Sinema, who was once a spokeswoman for the Green Party, repackaged herself as a moderate and overcame tens of millions in attacks on her liberal record. She is the state’s first female senator, and our nation’s first openly bisexual senator.

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0:00.0	The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by Delta Airlines, the commercial airline the U.S. military
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0:11.4	Good morning. I'm James Helmin from the Washington Post and this is the Daily
0:15.6	202 for Tuesday, November 13th. In today's news, President Trump plans to fire the Secretary of Homeland Security as soon as this week.
0:27.0	One of Roger Stone's best friends says he's about to get indicted by Bob Mueller for lying to the FBI.
0:34.0	And it's official.
0:36.0	Amazon's second headquarters is coming to Crystal City and Queens. But first, the big idea. Democrat Kirsten Cinema was declared the winner in Arizona
0:51.7	Senate race last night, narrowing the GOP Senate majority back to 5149 with two races outstanding.
0:58.0	She is the state's first female senator and our nation's first openly bisexual senator.
1:04.8	She'll join Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin who's openly lesbian and just won her second term in
1:10.2	Wisconsin. Colorado also just elected the nation's first openly gay
1:15.0	governor in Jared Polis. Here's cinema giving her victory speech on Monday night.
1:20.4	I am so honored that Arizonans chose our vision of a better Arizona and now it's
1:28.5	time to get to work.
1:30.3	Arizona's had a choice between two very different ways forward.
1:35.0	One focused on fear and party politics,
1:39.0	and one focused on Arizona,
1:41.0	and the issues that matter to everyday families.
1:44.8	A three-term Congresswoman,
1:46.4	Cinema was once a spokesperson for the Green Party,
1:50.1	but she repackaged herself as a moderate to win in a purple state like Arizona
1:54.9	and overcame tens of millions in negative attack ads focused on her liberal record.
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