BREAKING: Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly has beaten well-funded venture capitalist Blake Masters for Arizona's U.S. Senate seat, putting the GOP's attempt to capture a Senate majority on more tenuous ground.
All eyes in Arizona will now turn to gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who insists she's"100% confident" she will defeat Democrat Katie Hobbs despite trailing her by 1 point, with 83% of votes counted.
But following his primary win, money for Masters dried up, his message became muddled, and the brown-haired, slightly robotic venture capitalist who had been billed as a wunderkind saw his gains largely evaporate. Instead, Thiel wanted the Sen. Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund to front the money for the general election. The brokered deal fell through in early October.
Kelly spent most of his campaign painting himself as an independent, bringing up disagreements he's had with members of his own party, including President Joe Biden. Voters across Arizona have blamed Biden for the economy, including 40-year-high inflation rates that have raised prices on everything from eggs to houses.
During their first and only debate last month, Kelly called the U.S.-Mexico border"a mess" and said Democrats don't understand border issues. Kelly said he stood up to members of his party when it came to illegal immigration and cross-border drug trafficking. "I suspect President Trump would be in the White House today if Big Tech and Big Media and the FBI didn't work together to put the thumb on the scale to get Joe Biden in there," Masters said. He added that unnamed institutions had worked together also to bury news stories about the contents of a laptop belonging to Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
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