On one side is an aggressively conservative state attorney general who has fought and often won multiple battles, including at the Supreme Court, against illegal immigration, against lax voting practices, against leftist overregulation, and against a national vaccine mandate.
On the other side: a callow 35-year-old who repeatedly cites the Unabomber’s manifesto as a source of wisdom, approvingly cited what he called a “poignant quotation” from Herman Goering (Adolf Hitler’s chosen second in command), and whose campaign is largely dependent on $10 million in support from his employer, the socially liberal billionaire Peter Thiel.
Naturally, former President Donald Trump is supporting the latter guy, the extraordinarily strange Blake Masters, for the Republican Senate nomination in Arizona against the former, the highly accomplished Mark Brnovich, even though hard-line conservative heroes Mark Levin and Sean Hannity are for Brnovich. It’s almost as if Trump is trying to make Republicans lose an eminently winnable race against short-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. Just as Trump did in causing Republicans to lose two Senate runoffs in Georgia in early 2021, his agenda in Arizona seems more motivated by personal emotional gratification than by his adopted party’s best interests.
Trump blames Brnovich for not ginning up proof of enough election fraud in Arizona to deliver the state’s electoral votes to Trump. This is bizarre, considering that Brnovich actively prosecuted every case he could find — and considering that he so enthusiastically has fought for ballot security that both Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican Gov. Doug Ducey say he has been too aggressive rather than not aggressive enough.
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