WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) attends a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee meeting to discuss committee matters on Capitol Hill on October 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee met to discuss topics including amendments to the Inspector General Act of 1978 and the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and to vote on several nominations to security posts. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and other executives donated money to centrist Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema‘s (Arizona) reelection campaign in the first quarter of the year, according to Sinema’s most recent Federal Election Commission filing.
Dimon, who has been known to give funds to candidates in both parties, personally contributed $2,900, which is the maximum an individual can donate.
Fellow-Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly is up for reelection in the swing state, but Sinema is not up for reelection until 2024. Arizona went blue for President Joe Biden in 2020, for the first time in nearly 25 years.
Sinema was censured by Arizona Democrats in January after she opposed changing the longstanding filibuster rule to pass voting rights bills. The donations from J.P. Morgan executives came after she and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), the other moderate senator, broke with their party to vote down the one-time change to the rule to do away with the 60-vote threshold in favor of a majority vote.
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