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I was googling about this, and found this which pulls no punches. Seems he's a Thiel-esque hard-Right candidate: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/562508-th
by pbiggar 5y ago
I was googling about this, and found this which pulls no punches. Seems he's a Thiel-esque hard-Right candidate: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/562508-thiel-ally-blake-masters-launches-arizona-senate-bid https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/562508-thiel-ally-blak...
> Blake Masters, a top ally of GOP mega-donor Peter Thiel, launched a bid in Arizona’s Senate race Monday as the GOP field vying to take on Sen. Mark Kelly (D) grows.
> Masters, the chief operating officer at Thiel Capital and president of the Thiel Foundation, has recently become more involved in Republican politics, including in 2020, when he headed a PAC that raised more than $3 million to elect Republicans to the Arizona State Legislature. In a campaign launch video, Masters touched on a number of GOP culture war issues like immigration and critical race theory while casting himself as an ally of working families.
> “It’s time to put this country first. It’s time to enforce the law, and we need to finish the wall,” he added over video of him walking in front of the U.S.-Mexico border.
> Masters’s entry into the race is the latest move by Thiel to assert his influence over key Senate races across the country. The billionaire tech entrepreneur has doled out $10 million each to two super PACs backing Masters and J.D. Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” author who is running in the Ohio Senate GOP primary.