{"id":1653602,"date":"2022-09-22T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653602"},"modified":"2022-09-22T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T18:23:20","slug":"masters-gets-more-support-after-mcconnell-dumps-opportunity-to-help-pick-up-arizona-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/masters-gets-more-support-after-mcconnell-dumps-opportunity-to-help-pick-up-arizona-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters Gets More Support After McConnell Dumps Opportunity To Help Pick Up Arizona Senate Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmasters-gets-more-support-after-mcconnell-dumps-opportunity-to-help-pick-up-arizona-senate-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653602&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters is getting more help from independent, outside conservative groups after GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell abandoned the ripe opportunity for a pivotal pick-up to reclaim the majority. <\/p>\n<p>The Frontiers of Freedom Action (FFA) super PAC dropped a new ad campaign this month defining Masters\u2019s incumbent Democratic opponent as a left-wing creature of the beltway swamp who is key to President Joe Biden\u2019s radical agenda. <\/p>\n<p>The six-figure ad buy in the Phoenix media market highlights Sen. Mark Kelly\u2019s role in a 50-50 chamber voting to introduce \u201cshattering inflation\u201d from runaway spending and high power prices from canceled energy projects. <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-congress-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to a tracker from FiveThirtyEight, Kelly has voted with President Biden more than 94 percent of the time, becoming one of the administration\u2019s reliable allies in the split Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign from Frontiers of Freedom Action comes in the form of two ads: one running for two minutes, and another for 60 seconds.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"A6FU4rIBPtOHiEY8xW3lb5pZwd2X7znMc01NuCvgQaGehSDmJ\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"KhdVeA1J9OoBnhTESQM1iEpi20flmPOjsDV3BCUHWoclNktHRIG88XTJbCzx4637u4mrMZPqDp6xGaKckLg5j\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>George Landrith, the president of the super PAC, told The Federalist the ads were launched two weeks ago in response to McConnell\u2019s decision to gut resources from one of the most competitive races this election cycle. In the last week of August, McConnell\u2019s super PAC to reclaim the Senate majority, the Senate Leadership Fund, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/26\/mcconnell-senate-arizona-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">canceled<\/a> nearly $8 million worth of ad buys set to boost Masters. The week prior, McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/19\/come-on-mitch-mcconnell-republicans-need-you-to-step-up-and-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">undermined<\/a> Republicans in tight contests by complaining on Fox News that voters nominated poor candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went in right after he pulled out,\u201d Landrith said. \u201cOne, [Masters] can win, and two, he\u2019s a fine candidate because he\u2019s going to stand up for the things people believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Arizona Republican Senate primary, the venture capitalist candidate pledged not to support McConnell, now 80, for another term in GOP leadership. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Axios revealed McConnell would be <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/21\/mcconnell-abandons-arizona-senate-race-to-maintain-a-gop-he-can-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slashing<\/a> an additional $10 million from the Arizona Senate race just more than a month from Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cancellations mean that the GOP\u2019s leading super PAC won\u2019t be spending any money in Arizona, one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country,\u201d Axios reported, adding that McConnell\u2019s allies are \u201cconfident other outside conservative groups will make up much of the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The $7.5 million tallied from outside groups compiled by Axios, however, remains far short of the $18 million now stricken from Republicans\u2019 effort to pick up a vulnerable Senate seat from a state which, before Kelly, had not been represented by two Democrat senators <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">since 1953<\/a>. In 2020, President Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carried<\/a> Arizona by less than 11,000 votes. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/az\/arizona-senate-masters-vs-kelly-7390.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest<\/a> major poll in the contest comes from the Trafalgar Group showing Kelly with only a two-point lead, with Masters within striking distance. The Trafalgar Group emerged as one of the most reliable pollsters of the prior two election cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Landrith made clear his group was going to get involved in the Arizona Senate race regardless of the moves by Republican leadership, but called McConnell\u2019s reliance on outside groups to bring Masters across the finish line a \u201cshame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t show up, you lose,\u201d Landrith said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to do that. Blake Masters is going to be a great U.S. senator. We\u2019re not going to leave him without help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After McConnell\u2019s August cancellation of Arizona Senate ads, another independent super PAC affiliated with Heritage Action for America <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/13\/heritage-action-steps-up-in-arizona-senate-race-after-mcconnell-pulls-8-million-from-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> an infusion of $5 million into the race.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action for America and president of the Sentinel Action Fund, told The Federalist her group\u2019s spending spree was a \u201cclarion call for the conservative movement to come and support this candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters is getting more help from independent, outside conservative groups after GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell abandoned the ripe opportunity for a pivotal pick-up to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}