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8:07Now PlayingDonald Trump backed candidate, Blake Masters, and Paul Gosar get caught on camera agreeing with violent action taken against immigrants along the border in a candid video from Lauren Windsor and Walter Masterson of Undercurrent. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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Why MAGA Worshipper Blake Masters Has Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on the Run
"PHOENIX—When Arizona Republicans nominated Blake Masters to run against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), there were signs it marked the beginning of the end of the GOP’s chances to flip one of their most coveted Senate seats.
The 36-year old protégé of far-right tech billionaire Peter Thiel, Masters made it through a contested primary with the backing of Donald Trump. He’d run a campaign so hard-edged and stridently Trumpian that it bordered on “dystopian,” in the words of Chuck Coughlin, a GOP pollster in Arizona.
For months, Masters had struggled to gain traction, and polls showed him losing to Kelly in resounding fashion—some by as much as 10 points. In September, the leading GOP super PAC cut its ad reservations in Arizona in an apparent triage of Masters, and prognosticators like the Cook Political Report moved the race into a less competitive category along with states like Colorado.
With the election now days away, however, it’s safe to say Democrats’ hopes for a safe, no-sweat victory in Arizona have disappeared like a Sonoran Desert mirage.
Less than two years removed from his narrow 2020 victory, Kelly is fighting for his political life—and Democrats’ hopes of holding the Senate majority—yet again. Masters has closed the gap in polls and Republicans are growing more bullish on the race."
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