{"id":1686871,"date":"2022-10-12T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1686871"},"modified":"2022-10-12T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:51:09","slug":"arizona-senate-candidate-courts-moderate-voters-in-late-campaign-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-senate-candidate-courts-moderate-voters-in-late-campaign-pivot\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Senate Candidate Courts Moderate Voters in Late-Campaign Pivot"},"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\">18<\/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%2Farizona-senate-candidate-courts-moderate-voters-in-late-campaign-pivot%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=1686871&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-arizona\">Arizona<\/a>\u2019s Senate candidates are looking to sway voters to their side and appeal to moderates in a state that\u2019s been more purple than red in the past two elections.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this endeavor, Arizona\u2019s current Senator, Mark Kelly, squared off against Republican challenger and political newcomer Blake Masters in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vt7oJ1lnfro\">contentious debate<\/a> that saw the candidates answering questions on inflation, the border, abortion, election integrity, and President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/03\/blake-masters-1200x799.jpg\"><\/a> Republican U.S. senatorial candidate Blake Masters speaks during his election night watch party in Chandler, Ariz., on Aug. 2, 2022. (Brandon Bell\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Masters has taken a hard-core Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220505025627\/https:\/www.blakemasters.com\/\">supporter<\/a>\u00a0stance in the past, while Kelly has continually courted moderates by highlighting his willingness to work across the aisle. But the Oct. 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-debate\">debate<\/a> saw Masters softening his stance on issues like abortion and election integrity and blasting Kelly as a far-left candidate, not a moderate, by pointing to his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-congress-votes\/mark-kelly\/\">partisan<\/a>\u00a0voting record.<\/p>\n<p>Further showing he\u2019s aware of Arizona\u2019s more moderate political climate, Masters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220505025627\/https:\/www.blakemasters.com\/\">scrubbed<\/a>\u00a0his campaign website of past references to his early MAGA support, his \u201c100 percent\u201d pro-life stance, and his view that if elections were \u201cfair, \u201d Donald Trump would be president. Positions that were listed on his website as late as Aug. 18, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220818195841\/https:\/\/www.blakemasters.com\/\">website archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Inflation Reduction Act and the Border <\/p>\n<p>Neither Kelly nor Masters has refrained from publicly attacking the other on issues like abortion, inflation, and the border. But the debate was the first and only time the two met in person to discuss their differences.<\/p>\n<p>The first question went to Kelly and centered on inflation and what he\u2019s done to help control rising costs while in Washington. To highlight his independence, Kelly stated he\u2019d worked to reduce oil prices by telling Biden he was \u201cwrong\u201d not to increase oil and gas production.<\/p>\n<p>Masters minced no words when he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona\u2019s Senate candidates are looking to sway voters to their side and appeal to moderates in a state that\u2019s been more purple than red in the past two elections. As part of this endeavor, Arizona\u2019s current Senator, Mark Kelly, squared off against Republican challenger and political newcomer Blake Masters in a\u00a0contentious debate that saw the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1203,"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-1686871","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\/1686871","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\/1203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686871\/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=1686871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}