Arizona Democratic Party official says voters feel that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has 'totally turned her back on the people who got her into office'

• Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced she would leave the Democratic Party on Friday.
• An Arizona Democratic official said Sinema "turned her back" on the people who voted for her.

An Arizona Democratic party official said that voters in the state feel like Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has "turned her back" on the people who voted for her after she announced that she would no longer serve as a member of the Democratic Party.

Michael Slugocki, the vice-chair of the Arizona Democratic Party, said Sinema "has no constituency group in Arizona" anymore after her announcement on NBC's Meet the Press on Friday.

"They feel like she's totally turned her back on the people that got her into office," Slugocki said on Meet the Press. "She might have some support from independents, but she has no base. She has no coalition. She only has this personal interest in retaining her personal power in her Senate seat."

Sinema announced on Friday that she would be leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an Independent. Sinema wrote that becoming an Independent "won't change my work in the Senate; my service to Arizona remains the same."

In a series of tweets, Sinema said that she was "joining the growing number of Arizonans who reject party politics."

Slugocki acknowledged on "Meet the Press" that Independents make up "one-third" of the electorate in Arizona, but he said Sinema is still "very unpopular" among Independents.

"She does not have a good favorability rating among anybody," Slugocki said.

One AARP poll conducted in September showed Sinema has a favorability rating of 37% among Arizona Democrats. 36% among Arizona Republicans, and 41% among independents.