Abandoned by his colleagues after negotiating border deal, GOP senator faces backlash alone
LA TimesOklahoma Sen. James Lankford walks down Capitol stairs with his wife, Cindy, and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Wednesday before Senate Republicans blocked the bipartisan border package that they had asked Lankford to negotiate. Just before the Senate voted Wednesday to kill the border deal he spent the last four months negotiating, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford climbed a set of marble stairs outside the chamber and joined his wife in the visitors’ gallery. As the Republican quietly watched from above, briefly the outsider after defending his legislation in a last Senate floor speech, fellow negotiator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona was down on the floor excoriating the Republicans who had abandoned Lankford, one by one after insisting on a border deal and asking him to negotiate a compromise on one of the country’s most intractable issues. “They reacted to it like it was a poison,” said Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, the third negotiator with Lankford and Sinema, of Senate Republicans who had previously signaled they were supportive.
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