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AZ-Sen: Fox News Captures Previous Guy Coaching Blake Masters (R) On How To Peddle The Big Lie [1]
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Date: 2022-10-26
Not surprised by this at all:
“Look at Kari,” he said. “Kari is winning with very little money and if they say, ‘How is your family?’ she says, ‘The election was rigged and stolen,’” Trump told Masters.
Trump, in a telephone call that Masters put on speakerphone, encouraged the candidate to take a page out of the playbook being deployed by Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who has repeatedly called the 2020 vote corrupt.
“It’s the 1-yard line. If you want to get across the line, you need to be stronger on that one thing … lot of complaints about that,” the former president told Masters in the episode, titled “The Candidate: Blake Masters,” after Masters suggested during his debate with incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) earlier this month that there was no evidence of rigged voting in the 2020 election. Masters also called Joe Biden the “ legitimate president .”
The MAGA Playbook: Trump calls Blake Masters, tells him to go “stronger” on saying “the election was rigged and stolen”, like Kari Lake does. (Video: Fox Nation) pic.twitter.com/qRrmCqltyH
Yeah, Trump’s been trying to help bail out this idiot with advice:
x New—>Tucker Carlson doc on Blake Masters shows him taking call from Trump:
“If you want to get across the line, you need to be stronger on that one thing…lot of complaints about. Look at Kari … if they say, ‘How is your family?’ She says, ‘The election was rigged & stolen.’”
https://t.co/hiU0TaC3Nx pic.twitter.com/BVtyNuHSuz — Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) October 25, 2022
“I got a lot of complaints about that. I don’t know what you did with the debate, but I heard you did great in the debate, but bad election answer,” Trump told Masters in a phone call that was videotaped for “Tucker Carlson Originals,” a short documentary by the Fox News conservative commentator that posted Tuesday on the Fox Nation streaming site.
At one point on the tape, Trump said he would see Masters the next day, suggesting the call happened Oct. 8, two days after the debate with incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Libertarian Marc Victor, and just ahead of a rally in Mesa.
“You’ve got a lot of support. You’ve got to stay with those people,” Trump told Masters.
“Absolutely, we stay with those people,” Masters responded. “And it was a pleasure to put Mark Kelly on the ropes.”
The Masters campaign did not immediately clarify Tuesday whether he still acknowledges there was no evidence of widespread fraud in election administration, as he said during the debate. Masters has long held the election was “unfair” because reports of potential wrongdoing by President Joe Biden’s son didn’t receive more public attention, and has maintained that view after the debate.
Kelly’s campaign accused Masters of taking orders from Trump.
“Arizona deserves a principled Senator who always puts their interests first, not one who will sell out Arizona voters and cast doubt on our elections just because he was scolded on the phone,” said Sarah Guggenheimer, a spokeswoman for the Kelly campaign.
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