{"id":1672239,"date":"2022-10-04T13:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672239"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:49:16","slug":"exclusive-heritage-action-drops-seven-figure-ad-buy-in-arizona-senate-race-as-mcconnell-abandons-blake-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-heritage-action-drops-seven-figure-ad-buy-in-arizona-senate-race-as-mcconnell-abandons-blake-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Action Drops Seven-Figure Ad Buy In Arizona Senate Race As McConnell Abandons Blake Masters"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fexclusive-heritage-action-drops-seven-figure-ad-buy-in-arizona-senate-race-as-mcconnell-abandons-blake-masters%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=1672239&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>An independent super PAC aligned with Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, launched a seven-figure ad buy in the Arizona Senate race after GOP leadership pulled more spending from the key contest. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Sentinel Action Fund announced another $1 million-dollar spending campaign to support venture capitalist Blake Masters in his bid to unseat incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly. <\/p>\n<p>The 30-second ad features former Obama Border Patrol Director Mark Morgan highlighting Kelly\u2019s embrace of open borders under President Joe Biden. Morgan served as acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for President Donald Trump and is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/staff\/mark-morgan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visiting fellow<\/a> at the Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cToday, the cartels call the shots,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s weakness threatens Arizona, and Mark Kelly is his enabler.\u201d<\/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=\"l9hRIDQmtpUT7MpKk3QV7HeHdJL43BPBEcdw18bUC8iutXOWNhbfsRYXuiOZnGWlmIAogorrY6yMvL4FfaF\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><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, making the Arizona senator one of the administration\u2019s reliable allies in the split chamber. <\/p>\n<p>In the Sentinel Action Fund\u2019s latest ad, Morgan hammered Kelly\u2019s votes on immigration. Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/in-midst-of-fentanyl-crisis-vulnerable-democrats-voted-down-opioid-detection-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rejected<\/a> reinforcements at the border, opposed more equipment for drug detection, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1171\/vote_117_1_00051.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted<\/a> to end Trump\u2019s \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy. Masters, on the other hand, has made border security a pivotal part of his platform, earning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/09\/08\/blake-masters-endorsed-national-border-patrol-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsement<\/a> of the National Border Patrol Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArizonans deserve to know the truth,\u201d Jessica Anderson, the president of the Sentinel Action Fund, told The Federalist. \u201cSenator Mark Kelly has a long track record of enabling President Biden\u2019s failed border policies. He has failed to support Border Patrol and give our law enforcement the tools they need to end the waves of drugs and crime coming over the border into Arizona.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The influx of cash follows a mid-season announcement from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell withdrawing more resources from the western battleground seen as critical in reclaiming the upper chamber majority. The move is a <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\">clear play<\/a> by McConnell to aim for a minority he can control as opposed to a majority that threatens his perch in Senate leadership. During the Republican Senate primary, Masters pledged not to support the octogenarian lawmaker for another term as GOP leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/28\/mcconnell-dumps-another-million-into-alaska-to-save-murkowski-after-ditching-arizonas-blake-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McConnell Dumps Another Million Into Alaska To Save Murkowski After Ditching Arizona\u2019s Blake Masters<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In late September, McConnell\u2019s Senate Leadership Fund canceled nearly $10 million worth of planned television spending set to boost Masters.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/09\/20\/mcconnell-aligned-super-pac-arizona-blake-masters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. The move left Masters, buoyed by GOP megadonor Peter Thiel in the primary, left to fill the gap on his own. McConnell\u2019s allies, the paper reported, are \u201cconfident that other outside conservative groups will make up much of the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top GOP leader\u2019s September pull-out followed one in August when McConnell axed $8 million from the contest. It was two weeks after that announcement the Sentinel Action Fund also <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\">stepped in<\/a> with a $5 million-dollar campaign to bolster Masters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that this is absolutely a winnable race,\u201d Anderson told The Federalist. \u201cSentinel Action Fund is going to keep investing and fighting through Election Day. Every part of the conservative coalition should join us and win this vitally important race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to RealClearPolitics\u2019 latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/az\/arizona-senate-masters-vs-kelly-7390.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aggregate<\/a> of polls, which are often manipulated to inflate support for Democrats, Masters remains within four points of the Democrat incumbent. In 2020, 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 fewer than 11,000 votes, and the state has not been represented by two Democrats in the upper chamber for nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seven decades<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Since McConnell began to abandon the ripe opportunity for a key Senate pick-up, other groups have pitched in to pull Masters across the finish line. The Women Speak Out PAC, an affiliate of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America group,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sbaprolife.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/arizona-1-million-tv-ad-campaign-exposes-mark-kellys-abortion-extremism-contrasts-with-pro-life-blake-masters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched<\/a> a million-dollar ad campaign to highlight Kelly\u2019s extremism on abortion. The Frontiers of Freedom Action (FFA) super PAC\u00a0also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/22\/masters-gets-more-support-after-mcconnell-dumps-opportunity-to-help-pick-up-arizona-senate-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> a six-figure ad buy backing Masters. The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) led by Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/01\/rick-scott-savages-mitch-mcconnell-for-trying-to-sabotage-gop-senate-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feuded<\/a> with McConnell over \u201ccandidate quality\u201d this summer, has also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rpyers\/status\/1574852290481164305?s=20&amp;t=cyJZkSUx2DeXs2SjTjw46A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poured<\/a> more money into the Arizona Senate race than any other battleground this fall. <\/p>\n<p>Together, however, the groups\u2019 collective spending to date remains far less than the $18 million McConnell stripped from the contest.<\/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>An independent super PAC aligned with Heritage Action for America, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, launched a seven-figure ad buy in the Arizona Senate race after GOP<\/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-1672239","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\/1672239","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=1672239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672239\/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=1672239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}