Republican
extremist
who ran for
election to
the U.S.
Senate to
represent
Arizona. He
lost in the
general
election on
November 8,
2022. In
April 2021,
Masters
appeared as
a potential
candidate
for United
States
Senate in
2022, having
received $10
million from
Peter Thiel
in the
run-up to a
potential
bid to
challenge
incumbent
Democrat
Mark Kelly.
Masters
officially
entered the
race on July
12, 2021.
Promoting
himself as
"an America
first
conservative",
Masters
announced a
platform of
opposition
to H-1B
visas and
criticism of
Big Tech
monopolies.
Masters
supported
the audit of
the vote in
Maricopa
County. He
called
election
integrity
the "top
issue" of
his
campaign,
adding that
while
President
Joe Biden
was the
congressionally
certified
president,
"it's really
hard to
know" the
winner of
the 2020
U.S.
presidential
election. A
few months
later, Masters
stated he
personally
thought
"Trump won
in 2020" in
a campaign
ad and
appeared at
a fundraiser
with the
former
president at
Mar-a-Lago
shortly
afterward.
Masters'
campaign
attracted
attention
from a
campaign
advertisement
that he
released
stating that
"You should
be able to
raise a
family on
one single
income"Blake
Masters lost
badly to
incumbent
Mark Kelly
in the 2022
General
Election.
Masters
ran for
election to
the U.S.
House to
represent
Arizona's
8th
Congressional
District. He
lost in the
Republican
primary on
July 30,
2024.
"Arizona Republican
congressional
candidate Blake
Masters in 2021
criticized women who
have cats but who
are not married and
do not have
children, calling it
“sick” and
“demented.”"
"Trump
has endorsed
Masters’ rival,
former Arizona
attorney general
candidate
Abe Hamadeh, in
the race to
represent Arizona’s
West Valley-area 8th
Congressional
District. That
didn’t stop Masters,
who Trump endorsed
in his 2022 U.S.
Senate campaign,
from airing a
television ad that
suggested he has the
former president’s
support. “Trump
endorsed Masters,”
the ad read in
capital letters. It
added, in a smaller
type font, moments
later: “In Senate
campaign.”"
"A super PAC affiliated with venture capitalist Blake Masters' longtime allies in the crypto industry are spending almost $600,000 to boost him in the July 30 Republican primary for Arizona's 8th District, a constituency in the Phoenix's western suburbs that's home to what is now the ugliest House primary in the nation." [ . . . ] "Masters has repeatedly made use of part of an online comment his rival wrote as a teenager in 2009 that included the words "America Was Founded on Islamic Principles." He's also done everything he can to make sure viewers see a photo of his opponent in Mecca, which was taken while Hamadeh was deployed with the Army. Hamadeh himself recently told Business Insider's Bryan Metzger he is "non-denominational" and doesn't affiliate with a specific religion."
Birthright citizenship is guaranteed to most people born on U.S. territory by the first part of the Citizenship Clause introduced by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (adopted July 9, 1868), which states:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The Amendment overrode the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that denied U.S. citizenship to African Americans, whether born in the United States or not, and whether a slave or a free person.
"Masters'
campaign
told
Fox
News
Digital
on
Jan.
24
that
the
venture
capitalist
and
conservative
firebrand
had
raised
$1.3
million
in
just
the
first
two
months
after
announcing
his
candidacy
for
Arizona's
8th
Congressional
District,
but
that
amount
was
too
high
by
nearly
$200,000.
Additionally,
the
campaign
did
not
disclose
that
the
vast
majority
of
that
sum
— $1
million
—
was
a
personal
loan
from
the
candidate."
"Some
Republican
candidates
running
for
Congress
in
Arizona's
8th
district
continue
to
argue
that
the
2020
and
2022
elections
in
Arizona
were
stolen
from
their
party
and
made
those
complaints
a
central
theme
of a
Wednesday
forum."
[ .
. .
]
"The
8th
Congressional
District
forum
was
hosted
by
conservative
activist Merissa
Hamilton,
who
lost
a
bid
for
Phoenix
mayor
in
2020
and
now
runs
a
political
group
called
EZAZ.org.
Jenna
Rayne,
an
Arizona
State
University
student
and
chair
of
the
West
Valley
Young
Republicans,
moderated
the
forum
with
Hamilton. Abe
Hamadeh,
who
lost
a
bid
for
Arizona
attorney
general
last
year
and
continues
to
file
lawsuits
challenging
that
outcome, Masters,
and
state
Sen. Anthony
Kern participated. Jacob
Chansley,
often
known
as
the
QAnon
Shaman
for
his
protest
persona,
attended
the
event
but
was
not
allowed
to
speak
because
he
plans
to
run
as a
Libertarian
and
the
event
was
for
Republican
candidates
only,
according
to
the
hosts."
"There
are
Republicans,
and
then
there
are
Republicans
who
know
better. Blake
Masters,
who
ran
for
U.S.
Senate
in
2022
against
incumbent
Democrat
Mark
Kelly
and
lost,
should
know
better.
The
Stanford
graduate,
venture
capitalist
and
protégé
of
tech
billionaire
Peter
Thiel
sure
ain't
dumb,
so
when
he
embraced
the
far-right
"great
replacement
theory,"
which
posits
that
Democrats
are
trying
to
"replace"
white
folk
with
nonwhite
immigrants
to
the
U.S.,
he
knows
exactly
what
he's
doing
and
the
kind
of
racism
and
hatred
that
he's
stirring
up.
During
the
GOP
primary,
Masters
accused
"the
left"
of
wanting
to
"change
the
demographics
of
this
country,"
adding,
"They
want
to
do
that
so
they
can
consolidate
power
and
so
they
can
never
lose
another
election."
In
other
words,
if
you're
a
bigot,
vote
for
Masters
because
he's
pro-white,
right?
This
is
the
kind
of
racist
crap
Southern
politicians
used
to
spew
during
segregation.
We'd
advise
Masters,
who
remains
politically
ambitious,
to
do
better,
if
we
thought
it'd
do
any
good.
Hopefully,
his
words
will
stick
to
him
like
Scotch
tape
for
the
rest
of
his
career
in
politics."
"Blake
Masters has
now
joined
the
chorus
in
the
latest Kari
Lake smash
hit
to
top
the
MAGA
billboard:
“I
lost,
so
the
election
was
stolen.”
Masters
went
on a
tear
on
Thursday
evening,
charging
thousands
of
Arizona
voters
were
disenfranchised
and
calling
on
every
member
of
the
Maricopa
County
Board
of
Supervisors
to
“resign
in
disgrace”.
“They
all
deserve
to
be
recalled
by
the
voters,
and
investigated
by
the
AG
(pray
that
@AbrahamHamadeh makes
it
in),”
he
tweeted.
According
to
Masters-think,
the
Republican-run
Board
of
Supervisors
was
either
“grossly
negligent”
or
outright
rigged
the
Nov.
8
election
by
making
sure
that
Election
Day
lines
were
long
and
tabulation
machines
didn’t
work.
“We
may
never
know
how
many
thousands
of
voters
were
disenfranchised,”
he
tweeted.
“And
yes
this
would
have
made
a
difference
in
Abe
and
Kari’s
races.”
He
also
complains
that
that
not
enough
Republicans
voted
by
mail.
Oh,
the
irony."
"Elected officials and candidates for office in 2022 continue to challenge and question the results of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona.
The results have been examined and re-examined, challenged in court and in a monthslong ballot review. No evidence has been found of widespread fraud or error in the results.
Yet candidates deny the outcome. Others don't quite go as far. But they raise questions about potential irregularities they say could have influenced the vote and should be examined.
The Arizona Republic is listing candidates by category by the race that they are entered in. This list is not complete and will be updated throughout the 2022 election season.
Election deniers
These candidates in Arizona races deny that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, either in Arizona or nationwide."
"Masters is
just
as
far
outside
the
ideological
mainstream
as
he
let
on
during
the
primary.
He
thinks
that
America
is
in a
period
of
extreme
societal
decline—a
“dystopian
hell
world,”
in
his
words—and
“evil
and
incompetent”
Democrats
are
mostly
to
blame.
To
rescue
our
country
from
the
left,
Masters
believes
that
America
needs
a
more
combative
Republican
Party
willing
to
weaponize
state
power
to
pursue
a
hard-right
nationalistic
agenda,
enforce
socially
conservative
values,
and
punish
anybody
who
gets
in
the
way.
Of
course,
far-right
nationalism
itself
isn’t
all
that
unique
within
the
post-Trump
GOP.
But
Masters’
worldview
is
both
more
thoughtful
and
more
extreme
than
those
of
his
Republican
counterparts.
He
hasn’t
arrived
at
this
perspective
merely
out
of
political
expediency:
he’s
a
true
believer
in
hard-right
nationalism
and
a
harsh
critic
of
small-L
liberalism."
"Republican
Senate
hopeful Blake
Masters repeatedly
has
said
there’s
“rot”
in
the
military
and
that
its
leadership
is
inadequate,
incompetent
and
should
be
fired."
[...]
""Our
top
generals
have
turned
into
woke
corporate
bozos,
and
our
troops
deserve
better,”
he
wrote
on
in
November,
accompanied
by a
campaign
video
of
him
lambasting
the
military.
“I
hate
to
say
it,
but
our
military
leadership
is
totally
incompetent,”
Masters
said,
standing
in
what
appears
to
be
an
agricultural
field.
“No
active
duty
American
general
has
ever
won
a
war."
"Blake
Masters,
the
Republican
nominee
for
Senate
in
Arizona,
has
repeatedly
said
the
U.S.
should
clean
house
on
the
senior
ranks
of
the
military,
pushing
the
claim
that
all
the
generals
and
admirals
are
“woke”
and
“left-wing”
losers
who’ve
never
won
a
war.
His
solution?
Fire
them
all,
and
promote
“the
most
conservative
colonels.”
“Your
entire
general
class,
they're
left-wing
politicians
at
this
point.
It's
very
hard
to
become
a
general
without
being
some
kind
of
left-of-center
politician,”
he
said
at
an
Apache
Junction
Ladies
for
President
Trump
event
in
August
2021,
according
to
audio
obtained
by
VICE
News.
“I
would
love
to
see
all
the
generals
get
fired.
You
take
the
most
conservative
colonels,
you
promote
them
to
general."
"Controversial
comments
about
the
U.S.
Capitol
riot,
an
immigration
conspiracy
theory,
and
the
false
claims
of a
stolen
election
have
disappeared
from
Republican
Senate
hopeful Blake
Masters'
campaign
website.
Masters
is
demonstrating
that
his
campaign
reboot
involved
more
than
removing
his
views
on
abortion.
During
the
Arizona
GOP
Senate
primary,
Masters'
website
urged
a
stop
to
"the
Biden
crime
wave"
that
seemed
to
cast
the
Jan.
6,
2021,
insurrection
as
trespassing.
Today,
there
is
no
apparent
reference
to
the
violent
clash
between
a
pro-Trump
mob
and
police
at
the
Capitol.
That
change,
along
with
others
first
reported
by
CNN,
reflects
an
evolving
shift
in
tone
from
Masters,
as
he
looks
to
broaden
his
appeal
beyond
Republican
voters
in
his
bid
to
oust
Sen.
Mark
Kelly,
D-Ariz."
"The campaign website for Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters appears to have removed a popular far-right claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
Masters' website previously stated that the "2020 election was a rotten mess" and that "if we had a free and fair election, President Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office."
The claims were on Masters' campaign website as late as August 23, based on available archived screenshots from WaybackMachine, before it disappears around August 25.
The website now just states, "We need to get serious about election integrity," before going into several points to reform US elections, including banning drop boxes and "ending indiscriminate mass mailing of ballots."
CNN first reported the updates to the website.
His campaign site has toned down some of its language around other go-to Republican talking points.
NBC News previously reported that Masters' website removed more extreme anti-abortion stances, calling for a "federal personhood law" that could make abortion illegal even at the state level. The website also previously said that Masters was "100% pro-life."
Now, it says Masters supports a "law or a Constitutional amendment that bans late-term (third trimester) abortion and partial-birth abortion at the federal level," while also affirming that the candidate disagrees with Roe v. Wade.
In his section on immigration, CNN reported that the website was scrubbed of language that references the great replacement conspiracy theory — a claim that non-white voters are being brought into the US to outnumber white voters for a certain political agenda.
A source close to Masters told CNN that the website is updated and managed by the candidate himself. "
"A
widely
reported
radical
response
from Blake
Masters—according
to
at
least
one
Valley
health
care
worker—”offend
every
single
woman
and
individual
that
supports
abortion
rights
and
women’s
personal
health
decisions.”"
Aug.
27,
2022
Scrubbed
From
Blake
Masters
Website
Aug.
25,
2022
And
What
It
Was
Replaced
With:
More
Republican
projection,
less
reality
This
WOULD
have
been
saved
to
the
Internet
Archive
but
for
Masters
having
it
excluded
so
there
would
be
no
record
of
these
changes.
Only
a
website
owner
can
request
that
a
site
be
excluded.
"Arizona
Republican
Senate
candidate Blake
Masters softened
his
tone
and
scrubbed
his
website's
policy
page
of
tough
abortion
restrictions
Thursday,
as
his
party
reels
from
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court's
decision
overturning
Roe
v.
Wade."
[...]
"Look,
I
support
a
ban
on
very
late-term
and
partial-birth
abortion,"
he
said.
"And
most
Americans
agree
with
that.
That
would
just
put
us
on
par
with
other
civilized
nations."
(Late-term
abortions
are
extremely
rare,
according
to a
Centers
for
Disease
Control
and
Prevention
tracker.)
Just
after
releasing
the
ad,
Masters'
campaign
published
an
overhaul
of
his
website
and
softened
his
rhetoric,
re-writing
or
erasing
five
of
his
six
positions.
NBC
News
took
screenshots
of
the
website
before
and
after
it
was
changed.
Masters'
website
appeared
to
be
refreshed
after
NBC
News
reached
out
for
clarification
on
his
abortion
stances.
"I
am
100%
pro-life,"
Masters'
website
read
as
of
Thursday
morning.
That
language
is
now
gone."
"California
tech
financier
turned
Arizona
GOP
senate
candidate Blake
Masters often
cites
his
own
business
record
as a
model
for
his
hardline
anti-China
policies,
claiming
that
as
an
investor
he
had
not
raised
money
for
“a
single
startup”
in
China,
and
wanting
to
“literally
ban”
Chinese
nationals
from
working
for
U.S.
companies
out
of
national
security
concerns.
One
problem.
It
turns
out,
Masters
has
participated
in
multiple
funding
rounds
for
a
Chinese
biomedical
startup—including
alongside
Chinese
Communist
Party
investors.
He
also
had
business
ties
to a
second,
U.S.-based
medical
company
when
it
was
honored
by a
CCP-backed
organization."
"The
Arizona
Senate
candidate
said
he’d
“never
heard
of”
his
Christian
nationalist
superfan
Andrew
Torba.
New
audio
reveals
he
talked
to
the
Gab
CEO
at
length"
"Peter
Thiel's
$15
million
helped Blake
Masters win
the
Republican
primary.
Thiel's
biographer
explains
what
Thiel
wants
and
how
he's
connected
to
Masters."
Aug.
8,
2022
Blake Masters - Wrong Side
What do you call a Nazi-loving, anti-American, tax-hiking Arizonan? Blake Masters.
The New York Times by Jonathan Weisman, July 6, 2022
"Blake Masters, a Republican candidate for the Senate in Arizona who won the endorsement of former President Donald J. Trump, has been dogged by a trail of youthful writings in which he lamented the entry of the United States into the First and Second World Wars, approvingly quoted a Nazi war criminal and pushed an isolationism that extended beyond even Mr. Trump’s.
In the most recent examples, unearthed and provided to The New York Times by opponents of Mr. Masters, he took to the chat room of CrossFit, his workout of choice, as a Stanford undergraduate in 2007 to espouse views that might not sit well with the Republican electorate of 2022.
As he had in other forums, Mr. Masters wrote on the CrossFit chat room that he opposed American involvement in both world wars — although World War II, he conceded, “is harder to argue because of the hot button issue of the Holocaust (nevermind that our friend Stalin murdered over twice as many as Hitler … why do we gloss over that in schools?).”"
[ . . . ]
"Also on the CrossFit chat room, Mr. Masters, then 20, argued that Iraq and Al Qaeda did not “constitute substantial threats to Americans.”" ...
"Andrew
Anglin,
who
publishes
the
hate
site
Daily
Stormer,
announced
his
endorsement
of Masters in
a
blog
post
that
also
expressed
support
for
Trump-endorsed
Ohio
Senate
candidate
J.D.
Vance,
another
GOP
candidate
bankrolled
by
billionaire
tech
investor
Peter
Thiel,
reported
Jewish
Insider.
“I
cannot
give
a
more
forceful
endorsement,
and
I
demand
that
anyone
in
Arizona
(who
is
not
some
kind
of
known
neo-Nazi
or
whatever)
get
in
contact
with
his
campaign
and
see
what
kind
of
help
he
needs,”
Anglin
wrote
in
the
June
9
entry.
“This
is
exactly
the
kind
of
man
this
country
needs."
The
37-year-old
Anglin,
an
outspoken
admirer
of
Adolf
Hitler
and
an
early
Trump
supporter,
has
gone
into
hiding
since
helping
to
orchestrate
the
2017
"Unite
the
Right"
rally
in
Charlottesville,
Virginia."
Jul.
1,
2022
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Alamy
"Republican senatorial candidate Blake Masters enjoys the financial and political support of his longtime friend, mentor, and billionaire business partner Peter Thiel, who is gay. But Masters, who attended Thiel’s wedding, also apparently believes Thiel’s marriage should be illegal."
"We
got
to
cut
the
knot
at
some
point
though
because
I'll
tell
you
what,
I'm
not
going
to
receive
Social
Security,"
GOP
Senate
primary
candidate
Blake
Masters
said
at a
primary
debate
hosted
by
the
conservative
group FreedomWorks"
"The
“Last
Week
Tonight”
host
aimed
his
ire
at
the
Peter
Thiel-backed
GOP
candidate
for
Senate
in
Arizona
who’s blamed
gun
violence
on
“Black
people”
and
admires
the
Unabomber."
"there
is
clear
evidence
that
Jackson
was
cold-cocked
by a
woman
who
was
shooting
cell
phone
video
of
him
from
a
few
feet
away.
The
video
shows the
woman
lashed
out
with
a
balled
fist
at
Jackson's
left
jaw.
Jackson's
head
snapped
back;
the
smack
on
Jackson's
face
appeared
to
be
audible.
In
the
video,
Jackson's
arms
appear
to
be
flailing.
"I
defended
myself
against
her
because
she'd
already
punched
me,"
he
said.
"I
pushed
her
left
shoulder
away
so
we
could
get
some
distance
because
she
was
right
up
against
me."
"When
I
pushed
her
away,
that's
when
the
male
mob
descended
upon
me,"
he
said.
The
candidate
event
hadn't
started
yet.
Masters
was
circulating
behind
the
small
group
near
Jackson.
The
video
shows
that Masters,
who
is
35,
rushed
in,
put
his
hands
around
Jackson's
neck
and
pushed
him
to
the
ground outside
the
meeting
room.
Two
attendees
harassed
Jackson
as
he
lay
on
the
ground.
Jackson
suffered
a
bruised
neck
-
the
result
of
someone
tugging
on a
gold
chain
around
his
neck,
he
said
-
and
bloodied
knees
when
he
hit
the
ground."
"Blake
Masters,
the
Republican
Senate
candidate
from
Arizona,
met
with
conservative
activists
at a
Phoenix
IHOP
this
spring
and
was
asked
whether
he
would
support
investigating
US
intelligence
operations
to
uncover
the
federal
government's
"nefarious
activities."
Masters
replied,
"Absolutely,"
and
then
floated
the
conspiracy
theory
that
the
January
6,
2021,
attack
on
the
US
Capitol
actually
may
have
been
a
false-flag
operation
set
up
by
the
FBI,"
"out
of
nowhere
comes Blake
Masters,
a
U.S.
Senate
candidate
who'd
been
glad-handing
in
the
background.
Masters
lunged
at
Jackson,
put
both
hands
around
his
neck
and
pushed
him
backward."
"Blake Masters, whom former President Donald Trump recently endorsed for Senate in Arizona, said during a podcast appearance earlier this year that “Black people, frankly” are responsible for America’s gun violence problem.
“We do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence,” Masters said on the “Jeff Oravits Show” on April 11, the Daily Beast reported on Sunday. “It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know, Black people, frankly. And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about that.”
Masters — who has peddled the great replacement theory and falsely insisted that Trump won the 2020 election — went on to say that Democrats “don’t like the Second Amendment” because “it frankly blocks a lot of their plans for us.”
Masters has leaned on racism, conspiracy theories, and guns throughout this campaign." . . .
"The
previously
unreported
donation
is
Thiel’s
first
new
investment
in
the
super
PAC,
Saving
Arizona,
since
he
seeded
it
with
$10
million
more
than
a
year
ago.
It
brings
his
investment
in
Masters
— a
friend
and
former
employee
who
recently
resigned
his
leadership
positions
at
Thiel’s
foundation
and
hedge
fund
— to
$13.5
million."
"A
half-dozen
mainstream
Republican
Senate
candidates
are
drawing
on
the
“great
replacement”
conspiracy
theory
once
confined
to
the
far-right
fringes
of
U.S.
politics
to
court
voters
this
campaign
season,
promoting
the
baseless
notion
that
there
is a
plot
to
diminish
the
influence
of
white
people
in
America."
"He
said
that
“at
a
minimum,”
abortion
should
be
left
up
to
the
states.
But,
he
added,
“I
actually
think
we
should
go
further
than
that
though.”
“I
think
the
14th
Amendment
says
you
have
the
right
to
life,
liberty
and
property,”
he
said
at
an
event
in
Carefree,
Arizona.
“You
can’t
deprive
someone
with
that
without
due
process.
Hard
to
imagine
a
bigger
deprivation
of
due
process
than
killing
a
small
child
before
they
have
a
chance
to
take
their
first
breath. So
I
think
you
do
need
a
federal
personhood
law.”"
"Blake
Masters,
a
Tucson-based
venture
capitalist,
boasts
on
his
website
that he
will
only
vote
to
confirm
federal
judges
“who
understand
that
Roe
and
Griswold
and
Casey
were
wrongly
decided,
and
that
there
is
no
constitutional
right
to
abortion.”
Roe
v.
Wade
and
Planned
Parenthood
v.
Casey,
decided
in
1973
and
1992,
respectively,
both
upheld
a
constitutional
right
to
abortion
access.
But
the
ruling
in
Griswold
v.
Connecticut
in
1965
protected
a
married
couple’s
right
to
buy
and
use
contraceptives
without
government
restrictions."
"Former
President Donald
Trump is
scheduled
to
attend
a
fundraiser
next
week
for
Arizona
Republican Blake
Masters,
marking
his
first
foray
into
the
state’s
contentious
GOP
Senate
primary.
[...]
The
fundraiser,
according
to
an
invitation
obtained
by
POLITICO,
is
being
held
Wednesday
night
at
Trump’s
Mar-a-Lago
Club
in
Palm
Beach"
"Want
to
have
an
intimate
dinner
with
Silicon
Valley
billionaire
Peter
Thiel?
Just
donate
$5,800
to
one
of
his
employees’
campaigns
for
US
Senate.
Donors
who
give
the
maximum
legal
amount
to
support Blake
Masters’
bid
to
unseat
Democratic
Arizona
Sen.
Mark
Kelly
in
2022
will
be
invited
to
have
dinner
with
the
candidate
and
Thiel,
according
to
the
campaign."
"Masters said
he
supports
the
ongoing
review
of
ballots
in
Maricopa
County
being
conducted
on
behalf
of
legislative
Republicans,
led
by
a Trump supporter
who
promoted
the
former
president’s
unfounded
election
conspiracy
theories.
Asked
whether
he
believes
Democratic
President
Joe
Biden
was
the
legitimate
winner
of
the
2020
election,
Masters
deflected.
Masters
considered
challenging
Republican
Sen. Martha
McSally last
year,
spooking
some
in
the
GOP
who
feared
he
would
weaken
the
incumbent
ahead
of
the
general
election,
but
opted
against
running.
McSally
lost
to
Kelly,
who
is
now
finishing
the
term
of
the
late
Sen.
John
McCain
and
seeking
his
own
six-year
term
in
office."
"Formed
on
April
19th,
the
Saving
Arizona
PAC
is
taking
aim
at
the
state’s
2022
Senate
race,
which
will
see
former
astronaut
Mark
Kelly
defending
his
seat
for
the
Democrats.
According
to
Politico,
the
PAC
will
support
Thiel
Capital
executive Blake
Masters"
"2016,
he
gave
$4 million
across
various
campaigns,
including
$1
million
to a
super-PAC
supporting Trump,
on
whose
behalf
Thiel
spoke
at
the
Republican
National
Convention.
He’s
known
to
have
funded
right-wing
hoaxer James
O’Keefe"
