Axios clickbait, Mitch McConnell and the rest of the story in Arizona
Josh Kraushaar is the best political reporter employed by Axios. I expect better than this article. The article is titled "Scoop: McConnell-aligned super PAC pulls out of Arizona." The title's intent is to make it sound like Republicans have thrown in the towel against Sen. Kelly. That isn't what's happening whatsoever. To be fair, the article opens by saying "The Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund is canceling $9.6 million in television ads for the Arizona Senate race, confident that other outside conservative groups will make up much of the difference for Republican nominee Blake Masters."
Now for the rest of the story. The reason why McConnell's super PAC is pulling its ad buys is because "other GOP-aligned super PACs, including one affiliated with the conservative Heritage Action for America super PAC, will be making up some of the difference. The Sentinel Action Fund will be spending $3.5 million on television ads and another $1.5 million on voter outreach, according to Politico."
Then there's this:
- A super PAC funded by billionaire Peter Thiel is spending $1.68 million on behalf of Masters. Thiel, however, hasn't donated any of his own money to the super PAC since the Republican primary. Thiel is holding a private fundraiser for Masters at his California home at the end of September, according to CNBC.
- According to a GOP ad tracker, other Republican groups spending money include the Trump-affiliated super PAC Our American Century ($1 million); the National Republican Senatorial Committee ($887,000), the Club for Growth ($330,000) and Restoration PAC ($100,000).
The big picture: Despite Arizona's battleground status, many Republican officials have been wary about Masters' prospects against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).Blake Masters will likely defeat Mark Kelly, who has been a do-nothing politician. Masters has already shown that he's willing to fight illegal immigration. That's the big deal in Arizona this year.
If there'd been an honest election Masters would have defeated Kelly, as with Lake vs Hobbs but everyone knows Dems stole the election like they did in 2020, except corrupt Dems (& RINOs & Deep Staters in the uniparty (e.g. McConnell)) lie as usual about what they know to cover up the fraud. See electionfraud20.org and 2000mules.com Those who glibly deny the irrefutable 2020 & 2022 election fraud have NO receipts to back up their lies, including the corrupt courts that refused even to look at the cases.
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