<!-- wp:html --><p>Rebecca Noble/Reuters</p>
<p>Venture capitalist turned upstart Senate candidate Blake Masters easily won the Arizona Republican primary on Tuesday, racking up another victory for candidates backed by former President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Peter Thiel.</p>
<p>Masters, a 35-year-old Bitcoin hawk with no political experience, rode Trump’s late-game support to a come-from-behind win, after <a href="http://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/thiel-associate-talks-up-crypto-in-long-shot-gop-senate-campaign">failing for months</a> to woo swing state conservatives with a steady stream of radical and <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1536897293676335107">at times dystopian</a> right-wing rhetoric threaded with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/us/politics/immigration-latinos-hispanic-voters.html">anti-immigrant</a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/blake-masters-blames-gun-violence-on-black-people-frankly">racist tropes</a>.</p>
<p>In the end, Masters outperformed runner-up Arizona energy mogul Jim Lamon. Masters will now face incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in the general election.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter-thiels-california-venture-capitalist-blake-masters-wins-az-gop-senate-primary?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Rebecca Noble/Reuters
Venture capitalist turned upstart Senate candidate Blake Masters easily won the Arizona Republican primary on Tuesday, racking up another victory for candidates backed by former President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
Masters, a 35-year-old Bitcoin hawk with no political experience, rode Trump’s late-game support to a come-from-behind win, after failing for months to woo swing state conservatives with a steady stream of radical and at times dystopian right-wing rhetoric threaded with anti-immigrant and racist tropes.
In the end, Masters outperformed runner-up Arizona energy mogul Jim Lamon. Masters will now face incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in the general election.
