Trump-Backed Candidate Scrubs Website Of Election Lies And Extremist Views

Trump-backed Senate candidate Blake Masters in Arizona is facing such a tough election battle that he has decided to scrub his campaign website of controversial claims, including his claims that the 2020 election was stolen. But the screenshots still exist, so he's going to have to eventually explain why he ran away from his previous positions, and that'll be a lot of fun to watch. Farron Cousins explains why Masters made this move.

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One of Donald Trump's handpicked, personally endorsed candidates for Senate this year. Blake masters over there in Arizona has been a very busy little boy recently, and he's been super busy scrubbing his website of all of the things that could point to him being an absolute ridiculous Republican extremist. For example, last week, of course, the news came out that he had miraculously scrubbed, all of the anti-abortion stuff off of his website. You know, he realized that that doesn't play well with voters and that a majority of people in this country, including majority of Republican voters actually support the right to have an abortion. So he was like, ah, I'm gonna go ahead and get rid of all of this, but it didn't stop there apparently because in just the last couple days, other sections of his website have gone missing, including one where he said that this country would be a heck of a lot better.

If Trump had won in 2020, I mean that that's not even technically a controversial claim. That's what Republicans believe. But he said, you know what? Even that might be a little too risky. So we're gonna get rid of that off the website too. Oh. And all the stuff I have on there about the 20, 20 election being fraudulent. I'm gonna go ahead and delete those pages as well, which yes, as of August 26th, all of those pages from his website have mysteriously gone missing. You can't find them. They don't exist. Folks. Blake masters just wants people to think. Now that, of course he's secured his primary victory. He's just your normal average run of the mill Republican. I don't believe any other crazy things out there. You can't find it on my campaign website. That's for sure. Right? Nobody's nobody's taken screenshots of those. Have they?

Except of course they have and you can easily find those. So it's not like you actually even did a good stealth job of getting rid of these things because they exist on the internet forever in one way or another. So masters in trying to undo this damage of being seen as an extremist is now seen as both an extremist and a coward because you believe these things, but you don't want people to know you believe in these things because you're a coward. If you believe in it just own up to it, let the voters decide from there what they want to do. And based on the polling data coming out of Arizona, it seems that the Republicans in Arizona are deciding what they wanna do. And right now it doesn't look like Blake masters has a chance in hell of actually winning that election democratic opponent. You know, the incumbent Senator Kelly, doing very well in the polling data right now, cruising to a safe victory. I won't call it an easy victory yet because it is just a single digit margin. You know, he, he's not, beating Blake masters the same way. Federman is beating Dr. Oz up in Pennsylvania, but he's got a good lead. So that's, what's worrying masters,

But you gotta be careful masters because again, you're a Trump backed candidate. Trump made you. So if you're deleting all this stuff where you're defending Donald Trump, where you're repeating his big lies, saying the country would've been better. If he would've won, that's not existent on your site anymore. You run the risk of him off. And if you him off, then you're gonna off the mag freaks in your state. They may stay home, which of course will easily hand the victory over to Mark Kelly. So you're caught between a rock and a hard place, which group of voters do you want to alienate the mag, a hat wearing fanatics or the semi-normal independent voters in Arizona. Because as your website scrubbing tells us, you clearly cannot make both of them happy. And it's pretty obvious which group you chose to appease. So best of luck with the mag freaks in November, cuz eventually they're gonna find out what you did.