For Immediate Release
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Contact: Hannah Goss, hgoss@azdem.org
ADP Statement On the Results of the GOP Senate Primary
PHOENIX — Arizona Democratic Party Chair Raquel Terán released the statement below following the results of the Arizona Republican U.S. Senate primary:
“Masters is not like us: His dangerous beliefs and policy positions are deeply out of step with the values Arizonans believe in. Look no further than Masters’ plans to completely ban abortion nationwide without exceptions for rape and incest, or how he plans to privatize seniors’ Social Security. His beliefs, actions, and words make it abundantly clear that he is unfit to represent our state in the U.S. Senate, and it has never been more important to re-elect Senator Mark Kelly this fall.”
What you need to know about Blake Masters:
Masters’ only accomplishment is working for a California tech bro – and he has dangerous and divisive beliefs like banning abortion and privatizing Social Security.
- HuffPost: GOP Senate Candidate Blake Masters Embraces National Abortion Ban. “Masters chided his fellow Republicans who won’t back a national abortion ban.”
- Business Insider: A Trump-backed Arizona Senate candidate suggests he wants to privatize Social Security. “We got to cut the knot at some point though because I’ll tell you what, I’m not going to receive Social Security,” GOP Senate primary candidate Blake Masters said.”
- NBC News: Gender pay gap is just a ‘left-wing narrative,’ Arizona Senate candidate said. “Masters disput[es] the existence of a gender pay gap while insisting that men earn more because they do the “risky” and “most dangerous jobs.”
- Daily Beast: Blake Masters Blames Gun Violence on ‘Black People, Frankly.’ “Blake Masters acknowledges that the United States has a gun violence problem. But he also has a theory about why there’s a problem—it’s “Black people, frankly.”
- New York Times: The Strident Writings of a Young Blake Masters Dog His Senate Run. “Blake Masters…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.”
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