{"id":589029,"date":"2021-07-12T14:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589029"},"modified":"2021-07-12T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:35:27","slug":"thiel-capital-coo-blake-masters-announces-run-for-arizona-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thiel-capital-coo-blake-masters-announces-run-for-arizona-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiel Capital COO Blake Masters Announces Run For Arizona Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fthiel-capital-coo-blake-masters-announces-run-for-arizona-senate%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=589029&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Picture-of-Blake-Masters-e1626111654872.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Blake Masters, an ally of Republican donor Peter Thiel, announced Monday on Twitter he is challenging Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>Masters, the chief operating officer at Thiel Capital and president of the Thiel Foundation, portrayed himself as a supporter of working-class Americans while talking about immigration and critical race theory in his first campaign video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur leaders have shipped millions of jobs to China, and the internet, which was supposed to give us an awesome future, is instead being used to shut us up,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are up against a media that lies to us, schools that teach our kids to hate our country, and corporations that have gotten so big, they think they\u2019re bigger than America.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.2068965517241\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you want to win, please donate what you can! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DS8adUJsT1\">https:\/\/t.co\/DS8adUJsT1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blake Masters (@bgmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\/status\/1414575666226368517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to put this country first. It\u2019s time to enforce the law, and we need to finish the wall,\u201d he said. \u201cWe gotta build an economy where you can afford to raise a family on one single income.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did not mention either Democratic President Biden or Kelly in the video. Instead, he attacked them in a press release where he announced his campaign, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/562508-thiel-ally-blake-masters-launches-arizona-senate-bid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis country used to work,\u201d Masters said, according to The Hill. \u201cNow it doesn\u2019t. The Biden Administration is a train wreck, and Mark Kelly is nowhere to be found. We have to take this seat \u2013 and the United States Senate \u2013 back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thiel has contributed $10 million to Masters\u2019 campaign, according to The Hill. Masters has previously raised more than $3 million to elect Republicans to the Arizona State Legislature through a political action committee in 2020. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/09\/arizona-governor-critical-race-theory-government-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Arizona Governor Signs Bill Banning Critical Race Theory In Government)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Masters will compete in the primary against Republicans like state Attorney General Mark Brnovich and former general of the Arizona National Guard Michel McGuire, according to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Democratic Party attacked Masters in a <a href=\"https:\/\/azdem.org\/release-adp-statement-on-masters-campaign-for-u-s-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> for \u201ctrying to buy his way to the Senate\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarreling into the race with $10 million in promised outside spending from a California billionaire, Blake Masters can\u2019t even pretend he\u2019s running to actually represent Arizonans,\u201d said Sarah Guggenheimer, ADP Spokesperson. \u201cMasters\u2019 candidacy only serves to make a chaotic, expensive, and absurd GOP primary that\u2019s centered around President Trump, not Arizonans, even more volatile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly dealt with some controversy for avoiding <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/05\/14\/mark-kelly-reported-connection-chinese-company-censorship-tencent-holdings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questions<\/a> in May 2020 concerning investments he made by a Chinese technology conglomerate to a space exploration company he co-founded, before his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/04\/mark-kelly-beats-martha-mcsally-arizona-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">win<\/a> in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/22\/mark-kelly-senate-astronaut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returned<\/a> a $55,000 paycheck earned for a speech in the United Arab Emirates in March 2019, avoiding the appearance of ties to a foreign government accused of violating fundamental human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Masters, an ally of Republican donor Peter Thiel, announced Monday on Twitter he is challenging Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly\u2019s seat.Masters, the chief operating officer at Thiel Capital and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314494,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Picture-of-Blake-Masters-e1626111654872.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Thiel Capital COO Blake Masters Announces Run For Arizona Senate","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Picture-of-Blake-Masters-e1626111654872.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Thiel Capital COO Blake Masters Announces Run For Arizona Senate","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589029","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=589029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}