AZ-SEN 2022 Megathread: Mastering the Art of the Thiel

[Brittain33]

How can anyone look at the last several Arizona elections and Kelly's advantages over Masters and rate this anything but Lean D? Likely D in Arizona does not exist.

[Brittain33]

Not here, but on Twitter - lots of people are telling on themselves by eliding “people with student debt” with “white people.”

[Brittain33]

This shows Masters is smart and playing the best cards he has. Will it be enough if abortion is banned by the arcane state law? I don’t know.

[Brittain33]

Honestly, I think this about face gives Kelly another layer to the abortion offense — calling Masters a liar. He can tie Masters to the long line of conservatives who proclaimed they were pro life but that Roe v Wade was off the table… until they overturned it.

I’m curious if the pro-life base is smart enough to give Masters a pass on the edits he’s made. I think anything that keeps abortion in the news is going to hurt Republicans, and that includes Masters trying to make this about pro-choice extremism because it just reminds cross-pressured voters how they feel about a ban.

[Brittain33]

They can’t be giving up on Arizona. Something else is going on here.

[Brittain33]

He’d be 86, so there’s a good chance he’d have died of another cause by now.

[Brittain33]

Good God. Can’t believe they ran an edgelord in a swing state.

[Brittain33]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but is saying “that’s a lie” “he’s lying” still considered a self-defeating political move that makes you look bad for anyone but Trump? I grew up hearing that Bob Dole saying “stop lying about my record” dug his own grave. But is that that still the case? Because Masters has called Kelly a liar in two videos. I’m sure it feels good for him to say it, but my experience says this turns off voters.

[Brittain33]

Suggestions for a new thread title?

[Brittain33]

The ballot is closed and the winner has been chosen