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Blake Masters Wants to Be Trump 2.0
Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters enters a 'Save America' rally on July 22, 2022 in Prescott Valley, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Peter Thiel’s protege is clobbering a former Top Gun pilot in the Arizona Senate race. How did this happen?
By Peter Savodnik
07.26.22 — U.S. Politics
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PHOENIX—Blake Masters was about to duck into this GOP candidates forum thing—this was in Mesa, late morning, early summer, and it was already 100 degrees outside—when a West Palm Beach number popped up on his phone. He’d been expecting the call. Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of PayPal and his old boss, had given him the heads up, and then a very …

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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