It's Official: Ruben Gallego Is Challenging Krysten Sinema

div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/mediaposters/2023/01/51780.jpg" //divpspanDemocratic Rep. Ruben Gallego on Monday became the first major candidate to /spana href="https://twitter.com/RubenGallego/status/1617507452198469636"announce a 2024 campaign/aspan for the Arizona Senate seat held by Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat-turned-independent who has yet to reveal her own plans. /span/p

pspanGallego, who would be the Grand Canyon State’s /spana href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-ruben-gallego-announces-2024-senate-bid-kyrsten/story?id=96599396" title=""first Latino senator/aspan, uses his kickoff video to talk about how his single mother struggled to raise her four children. The congressman goes on to describe his experience serving with the Marines in Iraq, where his unit suffered heavy casualties./span/p

p“You never fully come back from the war,” said Gallego, “Fighting through PTSD. There were some very low moments in my life. But I still didn’t give up hope and pushed forward.” He finishes by going after Sinema and her a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/kyrsten-sinema-davos-arizona-senate-seat-ruben-gallego"extensive ties to special/a interests, declaring, “If you’re more likely to be meeting with the powerful than the powerless, you’re doing this job incorrectly.”/ppa href="https://crooksandliars.com/2023/01/its-official-ruben-gallego-challenging" target="_blank"read more/a/p