{"id":1719346,"date":"2022-11-01T08:55:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719346"},"modified":"2022-11-01T09:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:35:43","slug":"libertarian-candidate-drops-out-of-arizona-senate-race-endorses-republican-blake-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libertarian-candidate-drops-out-of-arizona-senate-race-endorses-republican-blake-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian Candidate Drops Out of Arizona Senate Race &#8211; Endorses Republican 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\">26<\/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%2Flibertarian-candidate-drops-out-of-arizona-senate-race-endorses-republican-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=1719346&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 class=\"speakable\">The Libertarian candidate in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona&#8217;s senate race<\/a> has dropped out and endorsed his Republican opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/libertarians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libertarian senatorial candidate Marc Victor<\/a>, who was polling at 1% in a New York Times\/Siena College poll released Monday, dropped out of the race Tuesday, throwing his weight behind Republican nominee Blake Masters. Masters is facing Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly in the midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve said from the very beginning that the reason I&#8217;m running for senate is to promote and get us in the direction of freedom and peace and civility,&#8221; Victor said in a YouTube video announcing his endorsement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/arizona-gov-begins-sealing-gaps-border-wall-shipping-containers-topped-razor-wire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>ARIZONA GOV BEGINS SEALING GAPS IN BORDER WALL WITH SHIPPING CONTAINERS TOPPED WITH RAZOR WIRE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Victor said at one point in his video, &#8220;[Masters] really is \u2014 in his heart and in his mind \u2014 he&#8217;s in favor of doing everything he can to get us very sternly, very smartly in the direction of &#8216;live and let live.&#8217; And that seems like a good tradeoff to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Masters, who sat down with Victor for a 20-minute recorded phone call on Monday, is hoping the competition-turned-endorsement will give him a boost in the polls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/democrats-hold-slight-edge-senate-races-heading-final-week-midterms-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly leads Masters<\/a> 51%-45% in the New York Times\/Siena College poll, outside the 4.4 percentage point margin of error.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/arizona-senate-race-debate-democrat-mark-kelly-republican-blake-masters-clash-immigration-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>ARIZONA SENATE RACE DEBATE: DEMOCRAT MARK KELLY, REPUBLICAN BLAKE MASTERS CLASH OVER IMMIGRATION, ABORTION<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/640\/320\/AP22280054254909.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Republican Arizona Senate nominee Blake Masters smiles on stage prior to a televised debate with Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly and Libertarian candidate Marc Victor in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Republican Arizona Senate nominee Blake Masters smiles on stage prior to a televised debate with Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly and Libertarian candidate Marc Victor in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.<br \/>\n<span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Ross D. Franklin)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With one week before the midterm elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fox-news-power-rankings-storm-clouds-gather-democrats-northeast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News&#8217; Power Rankings<\/a> put the Arizona Senate race as a toss-up.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook Political Report adjusted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its rating in the race<\/a> from &#8220;Lean Democrat&#8221; to a toss-up, suggesting the GOP&#8217;s chances are improving in a crucial race that could determine which party takes control of the Senate this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The rating change comes &#8220;amid a spate of tightening private polling that has left Democrats worried about one of their strongest incumbents,&#8221; Cook Political Report analyst Jessica Taylor wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/640\/320\/Kelly-Masters.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (left) and Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters (right).\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (left) and Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters (right).<br \/>\n<span class=\"copyright\">(Photo by Brandon Bell\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans are defending 21 of the 35 Senate seats on the ballot this fall. If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>the GOP wins<\/u><\/a> the Senate race in Arizona, it could be the determining factor in their chances of taking control of the Senate this fall.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Libertarian candidate in Arizona&#8217;s senate race has dropped out and endorsed his Republican opponent.\u00a0Libertarian senatorial candidate Marc Victor, who was polling at 1% in a New York Times\/Siena College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Libertarian Candidate Drops Out of Arizona Senate Race &#8211; Endorses Republican Blake Masters","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Libertarian Candidate Drops Out of Arizona Senate Race &#8211; Endorses Republican Blake Masters","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719346","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}