Unofficial results were in line with recent public polling that showed Masters Tucson took command of a previously tight race after receiving Trump’s backing in June.
By Ronald J. Hansen Arizona Republic
Blake Masters, a protégé of billionaire Peter Thiel and former President Donald Trump’s pick for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat, defeated his challengers and gives the state its first Trump-style Senate candidate on the November ballot.
Unofficial results were in line with recent public polling that showed the Tucson resident took command of a previously tight race after receiving Trump’s backing in June.
In Masters, Arizona Republicans picked a conservative more rhetorically combative than former Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., who lost consecutive races in 2018 and 2020 to give the state its first pair of Democratic senators since 1953.
Jim Lamon, the founder of Depcom Power, an Arizona-based solar company, finished in second place. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich narrowly edged out Michael “Mick” McGuire, the retired adjutant general of the Arizona National Guard. Arizona Corporation Commission member Justin Olson finished last.
Masters’ victory hands the Republican nomination to a first-time politician whose youth and aggressive brand of conservatism stand in contrast to the low-key centrism embodied by incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.
