Masters Flip-Flops, Calls Biden “Legitimate President”

The Washington Post reports:

Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona who has baselessly denied the results of 2020 election, on Thursday called Joe Biden the “legitimate president” and said he had seen no evidence the vote count was rigged, even as he continued spreading groundless allegations of government interference in the outcome.

The comments by Masters in a debate with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), whom he trails in the polls, marked a stark shift from a campaign ad last year, in which the Republican said, “I think Trump won in 2020.”

But even as Masters sought to de-emphasize that position, he groundlessly claimed the federal government “forced” big tech companies to censor information that would have propelled Donald Trump to victory.

Read the full article. He needed the Big Lie to win the primary, but now that he has to face the non-cultist electorate, he squishes towards the truth.

Another death bed conversion. https://t.co/gGIMAnn2mv

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) October 7, 2022

“Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona who has baselessly denied the results of the 2020 election, on Thursday called Joe Biden the “legitimate president” and said he had seen no evidence the vote count was rigged” https://t.co/NyYjs3yScJ

— Jackson Proskow (@JProskowGlobal) October 7, 2022

as the great @natalie_allison points out, one difficulty Masters may have in saying that Biden is the legitimate president is that he still has a video up that begins “I think Trump won in 2020” https://t.co/rJy3Zqehzs

— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 7, 2022

Blake Masters: “He’s the legitimate president.”#AZSen pic.twitter.com/M2oEd9VVjs

— GIPHY News (@GIPHYNews) October 7, 2022