Blake Masters on Principles & Values

	Blake Masters on Principles & Values

Defend individual religious liberty & religious institutions

Q: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law?

A: Strongly Agree. In the U.S. Senate, I will fight to defend individual religious liberty as well as the liberties of our religious institutions. The First Amendment is not just about speech; it also protects our right to worship freely.

Q: Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs?

A: Strongly Disagree. This was one of the Democrats' most despicable tactics; if you disagree with their politics, they will come after your business and livelihood. That is unacceptable and un-American. I will fight for individuals and businesses' religious freedoms.

Source: AFA iVoterGuide on 2022 Arizona Senate race , Nov 1, 2024

The 2020 election wasn't free or fair: I think Trump won

Arizona Republican nominee Blake Masters has been explicit in declaring that "the 2020 election wasn't free or fair." In an ad Masters released in November 2021, early in the Republican primary, he said, wrongly, "I think Trump won in 2020." The rest of the ad was more subjective; Masters argued that Trump would have won in a "fair fight" without supposed anti-Trump media bias, "big tech" suppression of a late-election story about Biden's family, and some states having changed their rules to allow for easier mail-in voting. But Masters' ad-opening claim that Trump actually did win is plain false.

At the end of the Republican primary in early August, Masters' campaign website claimed that "if we had had a free and fair election, President Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office today." After Masters won the primary, CNN's KFile team reported, that language was removed from the site and replaced with this vague declaration: "We need to get serious about election integrity."

Source: CNN AdWatch: 2020 Election Denial/2022 Arizona Senate race , Aug 2, 2022

America is still the best nation in the world

America is still the best nation in the world. We still have the best governance model. We have the most talented and hardworking people. But these institutions need to be revitalized generation to generation. I'm very optimistic, we just need a change and we need people who are actually willing to dismantle the systems that have been put in place. We need a new class of leadership that is competent and will lead people to a good future. Source: The Stanford Review on 2022 Arizona Senate race , Sep 28, 2021

Runs program paying people to quit college & start companies

Blake runs Thiel Capital, a multi-billion dollar firm that invests in new technology companies, and the Thiel Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that promotes science and innovation. The Foundation's Thiel Fellowship Program has paid 225 young people to drop out of college and instead create new companies, which are together now worth more than $45 billion. In 2014, Blake co-authored the #1 New York Times bestseller Zero to One, which sold more than three million copies. Source: 2021 Arizona Senate campaign website BlakeMasters.com , Jul 19, 2021

For patriotic education; mourns loss of American optimism

In a video Masters mourned the loss of American optimism and affirmed his support for patriotic education, immigration enforcement, and "an economy where you can afford to raise a family on one single income." In his elegant campaign video, Masters presents himself as a dutiful son, loving father, and devoted citizen. It's not clear whether those virtues will be good enough for the MAGA base. Source: The Week magazine on 2022 Arizona Senate race , Jul 15, 2021

Describes himself as an American first conservative

[On worldview]: "I fear that we are losing the country," Masters told The Associated Press. "I want my kids to grow up in an America that works like the one I grew up in. I want them to grow up in a country that I still recognize." He described himself ideologically as "an America first conservative," using the phrase that Trump popularized with much of the GOP base. Source: FOX 10 Phoenix on 2022 Arizona Senate race , Jul 13, 2021

Being a conventional politician is sort of overrated

[Campaign announcement]: "There's a youthfulness and a freshness, fresh perspective that we really badly need, and that's what I bring to the table," he told The Arizona Republic. "Experience matters, and doing stuff in the real world matters, and I think at 34 years old I've done a lot and have succeeded in a lot of various things. Being a conventional politician and being in office forever is sort of overrated." Source: The Arizona Republic on 2022 Arizona Senate race , Jul 12, 2021

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