Gallego explained that part of what is so noxious about Sinema’s speech and stance against voting rights is that voting rights should not be considered a partisan issue in the first place, regardless of whether or not Sinema wants to be thought of as a
centrist or some kind of faux-moderate. “This is not a progressive thing. There's nothing progressive about being pro-voting rights. It's actually a very American patriotic thing and the fact that she's using an archaic rule to find the constitution to stop voting rights is very problematic for a lot of Arizonans of all political persuasions.”
Gallego continued to point out that for the people who voted for her, a majority of Arizonans, Sinema “is really disappointing.” When played a clip of Sinema’s speech where she claims to “support” the legislation that she is unwilling to vote for but is scared of the cultural divisiveness of … oh, who cares what b.s. she’s hurling out there. Gallego generously calls the sentiment “naive” before pointing out that Sinema seems to have forgotten her pretend ethical position on the filibuster back when she moved it aside to raise the debt ceiling. “So when it’s convenient to Wall Street she has a new set of principles, but when it comes to underlying legislation that has been the bedrock of our democracy, then she somehow goes back to these ‘ancient principles.’”
After playing the infamous clip of then-candidate Sinema back in 2010
railing against Sen. Joe Lieberman and the abuse of the filibuster, Gallego explained that he began his Democratic political career alongside Sinema. “The only consistency about Kyrsten Sinema’s roles and positions is inconsistency.” The CNN moderator, willing to go about 1 inch deep here, tells Gallego that Sinema probably believes this political position is popular, to which Gallego replies that “she is 100 percent missing the mark.”
