Blake Masters in 2022 AZ Senate race
On Civil Rights:
Highlights opposition to critical race theory
Masters said he plans to focus on "law and order, securing the border and supporting police" and the economic recovery, focused on middle-class workers. He also criticized large tech companies and highlighted
GOP culture war issues like opposition to critical race theory, which has been increasingly central to GOP candidates as an issue that revs up their political base.
Source: Politico.com on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 12, 2021
On Corporations:
Big corporations think they're bigger than America
[On the role of business]: "Our leaders have shipped millions of jobs to China, and the internet, which was supposed to give us an awesome future, is instead being used to shut us up," he said. "We are up
against a media that lies to us, schools that teach our kids to hate our country, and corporations that have gotten so big, they think they're bigger than America."
Source: The Hill on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 12, 2021
On Abortion:
Absolutely no abortions; I think it's demonic
Masters believes Roe v. Wade was a "horrible decision." He said he believed Congress should pass a "personhood law." "Absolutely no abortions," said Masters, who then qualified that a
compromise might allow states to allow "some amount" of abortions. He added that abortion rights supporters see abortion as a "religious sacrifice."
"I think it's demonic," Masters said. "And I think we have to put a stop to it."
Source: Tucson Weekly on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Oct 7, 2021
On Budget & Economy:
Need to invest in infrastructure, but against bloated bill
I do think we need to get serious about infrastructure and make those investments. There is some amount of money that we should be spending. But it's become a meme on the Left, they think everything is infrastructure. Social justice is infrastructure!
They've allocated $75 million to a program promoting female truck drivers because we're worried about the gender imbalance in long-haul trucking, and call that "infrastructure." No, that's bloat.
Source: The Stanford Review on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Sep 28, 2021
On Education:
Schools are indoctrinating students with anti-white racism
Masters complained about what he described as "anti-white racism" in U.S. schools, weeks before launching his campaign to run. "All it does is teach kids to identify in racial terms. Right? You are good or bad, depending on what you look like.
At this point it is straight up anti-white racism. I don't think we're allowed to say that. But let's call it what it is. It is toxic, and it does not belong in our schools.""We've got to take back the schools & stop the indoctrination," Masters said.
Source: Newsweek magazine on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Aug 10, 2021
On Government Reform:
Supports audit of 2020 Arizona votes: lacked transparency
Masters said he "certainly supports" Arizona's ongoing Republican-commissioned review of the 2020 presidential race. "I saw a lot of weird stuff and non-transparency in this election. People just know that most members of the media and most politicians
are happy to lie to them, so when you combine that with a lack of transparency, I totally sympathize with the desire to fix things legislatively and then to audit. Was everything as perfect as the Democrats say? I sort of doubt it."
Source: The Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 12, 2021
On Government Reform:
Democrats want to federal elections so GOP can't win
If Republicans don't win these elections, we lose the country forever. The left and the Democrats, they have taken control of almost every major institution in our country. And they're very close to controlling it all. And so, if they win, they tell us
what they're going to do. They're going to pass H.R.1, S.1. They're going to federalize elections, so no Republican can ever win again. They want to add new states to our union, just so they can add more senators and control everything.
Like tens of millions of Americans, probably even 100 million Americans and some Joe Biden voters, if we're being honest, I look at what happened in the 2020 election, and I see a lot of problems. They want to say it was a perfect election with the
perfect result. Maybe. But it didn't look perfect, with the mass mailings of ballots. My campaign manager received four ballots in different states. And so maybe the result was right, maybe not.
Source: FOX News Sunday Morning Futures on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 25, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Being a conventional politician is sort of overrated
[Campaign announcement]: "There's a youthfulness and a freshness, fresh perspective that we really badly need, and that's what I bring to the table," he told The Arizona Republic. "Experience matters, and doing stuff in the real world matters, and
I think at 34 years old I've done a lot and have succeeded in a lot of various things. Being a conventional politician and being in office forever is sort of overrated."
Source: The Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 12, 2021
On Principles & Values:
For patriotic education, mourns loss of American optimism
In a video Masters mourned the loss of American optimism and affirmed his support for patriotic education, immigration enforcement, and "an economy where you can afford to raise a family on one single income." In his elegant campaign video,
Masters presents himself as a dutiful son, loving father, and devoted citizen. It's not clear whether those virtues will be good enough for the MAGA base.
Source: The Week magazine on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 15, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Describes himself as an American first conservative
[On worldview]: "I fear that we are losing the country," Masters told The Associated Press. "I want my kids to grow up in an America that works like the one I grew up in.
I want them to grow up in a country that I still recognize." He described himself ideologically as "an America first conservative," using the phrase that Trump popularized with much of the GOP base.
Source: FOX 10 Phoenix on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 13, 2021
On Principles & Values:
America is still the best nation in the world
America is still the best nation in the world. We still have the best governance model. We have the most talented and hardworking people. But these institutions need to be revitalized generation to generation. I'm very optimistic, we just need
a change and we need people who are actually willing to dismantle the systems that have been put in place. We need a new class of leadership that is competent and will lead people to a good future.
Source: The Stanford Review on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Sep 28, 2021
On Technology:
Government should better regulate big tech companies
A self-described conservative nationalist, Masters said he will make law and order, including border security and combating illegal immigration, the centerpiece of his campaign. He also will focus on the economy and economic threats to
America, K-12 education and the rise of big-tech companies, which Masters believes the federal government should better regulate.
Source: The Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Jul 12, 2021
On Immigration:
Drugs and crime are just pouring over the border
Masters wasted little time framing Mark Kelly as a rubber stamp for President Joe Biden and did it in blunt language. "Our border is in chaos, we've got drugs and illegal aliens just pouring in, crime is up, the cost of groceries.
Actually, the cost of everything you need to live keeps going up and up," Masters said."It wasn't like this two years ago. What changed? Joe Biden took over, and in Washington, Mark Kelly backs
Joe Biden every single time, without thinking twice, without thinking of Arizona."
At one point during an exchange on migrants and drug trafficking at
Arizona's border with Mexico--which all candidates agree is unacceptable--Masters suggested Kelly is the "worst senator of all time" and should resign.
Source: The Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Senate race
Oct 7, 2022
On Principles & Values:
The 2020 election wasn't free or fair: I think Trump won
Arizona Republican nominee Blake Masters has been explicit in declaring that "the 2020 election wasn't free or fair." In an ad Masters released in November 2021, early in the Republican primary, he said, wrongly, "I think Trump won in 2020." The rest
of the ad was more subjective; Masters argued that Trump would have won in a "fair fight" without supposed anti-Trump media bias, "big tech" suppression of a late-election story about Biden's family, and some states having changed their rules to allow
for easier mail-in voting. But Masters' ad-opening claim that Trump actually did win is plain false.At the end of the Republican primary in early August, Masters' campaign website claimed that "if we had had a free and fair election, President Trump
would be sitting in the Oval Office today." After Masters won the primary, CNN's KFile team reported, that language was removed from the site and replaced with this vague declaration: "We need to get serious about election integrity."
Source: CNN AdWatch: 2020 Election Denial/2022 Arizona Senate race
Aug 2, 2022
Page last updated: Mar 09, 2024