penchant for provocation<\/a>\u00a0and contrarian thinking. He called for privatizing Social Security, took a hard-line stance against abortion and promoted a racist theory popular with white nationalists that Democrats are seeking to use immigration to replace white people in America.<\/p>\nBut after emerging bruised from a contentious primary, Masters struggled to raise money and was put on the defense over his controversial positions.<\/p>\n
He earned Trump\u2019s endorsement after claiming \u201cTrump won in 2020,\u201d but under pressure during a debate last month, he acknowledged he hasn\u2019t seen evidence the election was rigged. He later doubled down on the false claim that Trump won.<\/p>\n
After the primary, he scrubbed some of his more controversial positions from his website, but it wasn\u2019t enough for the moderate swing voters who decided the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Democratic Sen.\u00a0Mark Kelly\u00a0won his bid for reelection Friday in the crucial swing state of Arizona, defeating Republican venture capitalist\u00a0Blake Masters\u00a0to put his party one victory away from clinching\u00a0control of the chamber\u00a0for the next two years of Joe Biden\u2019s presidency. With Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 tiebreaking vote, Democrats can retain control of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/kellymark_051022gn_lead.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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