Masters, Blake (1986- )
Senate Control Hinges on Neck-and-Neck Races, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Control of the Senate rests on a knife’s edge, according to new polls by The New York Times and Siena College, with Republican challengers in Nevada and Georgia neck-and-neck with Democratic incumbents, and the Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania clinging to what appears to be a tenuous advantage. The bright spot for Democrats in the four […]
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5 Takeaways From the Campaign Trail
Rebecca Noble/Reuters Trump has another rally on Sunday in Arizona, where his pick, Kari Lake, is locked in a dead heat with her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs, in the governor’s race. Lake, a former news anchor, stumped recently with Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
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In Senate Battle, Democrats Defy Biden’s Low Standing (for Now)
PHOENIX — In a Senate split 50-50, Democrats on the campaign trail and in Congress have zero margin for error as the party tries to navigate a hostile political environment defined chiefly by President Biden’s albatross-like approval ratings. But with the Senate battlefield map mostly set after primaries in Arizona and Missouri this past week, […]
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Pushing an Immigration Conspiracy Theory, While Courting Latinos
Brian Hughes, the co-founder and associate director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University, said he was not surprised to see the far right cheering Mr. Masters on. “If a candidate is pointing toward the ideas that make up replacement theory, he or she doesn’t have to spell it out […]
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3 Senate Hopefuls Denounce Big Tech. They Also Have Deep Ties to It.
For Republicans running for the Senate this year, “Big Tech” has become a catchall target, a phrase used to condemn the censorship of conservative voices on social media, invasions of privacy and the corruption of America’s youth — or all of the above. But for three candidates in some of the hottest races of 2022 […]
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Blake Masters’ Political Posts in a CrossFit Chat Room Come Back to Haunt Him
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 […]
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Peter Thiel, the Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker
The wine flowed. Donald Trump Jr. mingled with the guests. And Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire and host of the event, had a message for the well-heeled crowd: It was time to clean house. The fund-raiser at Mr. Thiel’s Miami Beach compound last month was for a conservative candidate challenging Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming […]
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