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Blake Masters is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona. Until 2022, Blake Masters was Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, the investment firm of billionaire Peter Thiel.

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Blake Masters
stated on October 15, 2022 in a tweet:

Immigrants illegally in the country are treated “better than military veterans.”

By Jon Greenberg • October 21, 2022
Blake Masters
stated on August 8, 2022 in an interview:

On privatizing Social Security.

By Tom Kertscher • August 25, 2022
Blake Masters
stated on July 22, 2022 in remarks at a Trump rally in Arizona:

Sen. Mark Kelly “voted to legalize abortion up until the moment of birth.”

By Jon Greenberg • August 1, 2022
Blake Masters
stated on May 14, 2022 in a tweet:

“Democrats want open borders so they can bring in and amnesty tens of millions of illegal aliens — that’s their electoral strategy.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 16, 2022

Mark Kelly
stated on October 26, 2022 in a newspaper interview:

Blake Masters “wants to privatize” Social Security.

By Jon Greenberg • October 28, 2022
Senate Majority PAC
stated on September 12, 2022 in an ad:

Blake Masters does not support abortion exceptions for rape and incest.

By Tom Kertscher • September 16, 2022
Mark Kelly
stated on August 5, 2022 in an ad:

Blake Masters “wants to pass a national ban on abortion.”

By Tom Kertscher • August 26, 2022
Jim Lamon
stated on June 2, 2022 in a statement posted on Twitter:

Blake Masters “unironically quoted a Nazi, called World War II an unjust war, called the Unabomber one of his intellectual influencers, and shared an article attacking Israel as the North Korea of the Middle East.”

By Ellie Borst • June 16, 2022

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