Blake Masters Wins Arizona GOP Senate Primary

Yahoo News reports:

Blake Masters, an ultra-MAGA candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the marquee GOP Senate primary in Arizona Tuesday night, setting up a general-election showdown with his more traditional Democratic rival that will test whether the way to win a key swing state in 2022 is by channeling the animosities of the far right — or by trying to appeal to a broader coalition.

With more than 70% of precincts reporting, Masters —a 35-year-old “anti-progressive” venture capitalist propelled to the front of a crowded primary field by at least $15 million in super PAC funding from powerful Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, his longtime boss and mentor — clinched his party’s U.S. Senate nomination early Wednesday morning, efeating wealthy solar power executive Jim Lamon and state Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

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Masters, who recently made headlines for an essay that approvingly quoted Hermann Goering, has said that he wants to see the overturn of Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage and contraception.

White nationalist Nick Fuentes is backing Paul Gosar, Wendy Rogers, Kari Lake, and Blake Masters in today’s Arizona primary. pic.twitter.com/HWoR5lU33G

— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) August 2, 2022

Blake Masters wins Arizona’s Republican Senate primary in key battleground state showdown https://t.co/TxJfaU5ORW

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 3, 2022

This year, GOP voters have repeatedly nominated candidates who could prove too extreme to be electable — and who risk blowing otherwise very winnable midterm races because of it.

Arizona is now ground zero for this phenomenon — and Masters is Exhibit A. https://t.co/OYzxOnjnqR

— Andrew Romano (@AndrewRomano) August 3, 2022