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Kyrsten Lea Sinema (Sinema) was born on July 12, 1976, in Tucson, Arizona, US. Sinema knows firsthand the challenges everyday Arizonans face. Born in Tucson, Sinema went through some tough times growing up. Her family struggled to make ends meet, and for a while, they were even homeless. But they got by thanks to family, church, and hard work. Sinema graduated as valedictorian from Walton High School at age 16 and went on to earn her B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1995 at age 18. Sinema received her Master of Social Work degree from Arizona State University in 1999. In 2004, she earned a J.D. degree from Arizona State University College of Law. In 2012, she earned a PhD degree in Justice Studies, also from Arizona State. Sinema first ran for the Arizona House of Representatives in 2002, as an independent affiliated with the Arizona Green Party. She finished in the last place in a five-candidate field, receiving 8% of the vote. In 2004, Sinema won the Democratic...

Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema took a tiny lead Thursday over Republican Rep. Martha McSally in the Arizona contest, which NBC News considers too close to call. The Democrat holds an edge of only 0.5 percentage points or about 9,000 votes. Republicans have challenged the process of counting mail-in ballots which account for about three-fourths of Arizona's votes in the state's two largest counties. The lawsuit, which a judge will hear Friday, targets the practice of Maricopa and Pima Counties allowing voters to fix issues with their ballots for up to five days after Election Day. The state has a tedious process of matching signatures on voters' registration forms to those on their ballots, and the counties let voters fix signature problems for days after the election.