and former state attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh, alongside other notable Arizona Republicans, are in the running to become the Republican nominee to replace Rep. Debbie Lesko , who is retiring. The district, which encompasses the northwest part of the Phoenix area and has a large population of retirees, is heavily Republican, so the winner of the primary will likely win the House seat.
Both Masters and Hamadeh were endorsed by former President Donald Trump in 2022 and lost their respective races. Now, Hamadeh has received Trump’s endorsement, and both have waged intense campaigns against the other. “Blake Masters is a desperate, power-hungry coward attempting to divide MAGA to appease his Silicon Valley puppet masters,” a Hamadeh campaign spokesperson said in a statement to,” claiming that he believes the United States was “founded on Islamic principles” while displaying a photo of him wearing traditional Muslim attire at the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. His campaign has also said Hamadeh’s father was in the U.S.
During a debate in May, Hamadeh said he believed Masters did not care about the district due to the ads. “We campaigned together in the last election, and you claimed we were friends back then,” Hamadeh said during the debate. “And now you’re running hundreds of thousands of dollars of negative ads because you’re being funded by your Big Tech, billionaire friends.”As of March 31, the last time campaign finance documents were reported, Masters was leading the race in terms of fundraising with $3.8 million in the bank, which includes $2.7 million of his own money.
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