Do you wish Martha McSally had won in 2018?

[Tekken_Guy]

Do you wish that Martha McSally had won in 2018 instead of Kyrsten Sinema?

[TML]

Here are the potential complications of this scenario:

(1) McSally wouldn't be able to be dislodged at the ballot box until 2024.
(2) AZ might not be considered as flippable as it actually was in 2020 if Dems didn't score a statewide win in 2018.
(3) If all other 2018 and 2020 races went as they actually had gone, Republicans would still control the Senate right now, greatly limiting what legislation/nominations get voted on in the current congress.

Don't get me wrong - there's a ton of problems with Sinema, but those problems aren't worth the complications described above.

[Holmes]

No because I wouldn't have gotten a $1.4k stimulus at the beginning of the year.

[Leroy McPherson fan]

Yes. Plus, it would have cleared the field for a better Republican in 2020.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Hell no! Sinema is a pain in the ass, but at least Biden managed to have his Cabinet confirmed with her being part of the Democratic majority.

[MargieCat]

Only if I could exchange Sinema for another democrat.

I would have rather had Beto O'Rourke or Bill Nelson win and still have McSally.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Only if I could exchange Sinema for another democrat.

I would have rather had Beto O'Rourke or Bill Nelson win and still have McSally.

That's a fair compromise. Those two in exchange for Manchin and Sinema. We also wouldn't have Cruz or Scott as a bonus.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Hell no! Sinema is a pain in the ass, but at least Biden managed to have his Cabinet confirmed with her being part of the Democratic majority.

100% this.

[Del Tachi]

Yes (R)

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

No, McSally was a rubber stamp for Trump and supported the 2017 unaffordable tax cuts

Rs retired in 2018/ giving Pelosi the Speakership because 2017 tax cuts didn't being the utopia Rs promised

[MarkD]

No. I wish someone else besides Kyrsten Sinema, Martha McSally, and Angela Green had been on the ballot - an independent - and I wish that fourth candidate had won. (I lived in Missouri in 2018, and I voted for Craig O'Dear.)

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Lol McSally is Done, stop resurrecting her

[Utah Neolib]

Some “progressives” wishing that McSally had won in 2018 are betraying the liberal cause. Sinema has many policy issues and I wish a more liberal person had been the nominee in 2018. But without Sinema, Biden’s agenda would have no chance (rather than low) at passing, and many judges wouldn’t have been confirmed.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Some “progressives” wishing that McSally had won in 2018 are betraying the liberal cause. Sinema has many policy issues and I wish a more liberal person had been the nominee in 2018. But without Sinema, Biden’s agenda would have no chance (rather than low) at passing, and many judges wouldn’t have been confirmed.

It's the same thing as thinking that Clinton losing in 2016 was a net positive in general, or that Democrats would be better off if Biden lost last year. Apparently Democratic Party can only win by losing and self-undermining its own interests.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

No. As with Obama, Democrats would still get blamed for bad governance if Biden was president without a trifecta.

Ineffective and/or corrupt Democrats would also get to hide their reluctance to pass progressive policy behind Republicans, and with the trifecta also failing, there is at least an opportunity for some people to become wise to that ruse.