33 Facts About Blake Masters

Blake Gates Masters was born on August 5,1986 and is an American venture capitalist and former political candidate.

Blake Masters later served as chief operating officer of Thiel's investment firm, Thiel Capital, as well as president of the Thiel Foundation.

Blake Masters aligned himself with Thiel, who funded his primary campaign with $15 million, and Donald Trump, both of whom endorsed him in June 2022.

Blake Masters lost the general election to incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly.

Blake Masters received the fewest votes among all statewide Republican candidates in the 2022 Arizona elections.

Blake Masters ran for the US House in 2024 for Arizona's 8th congressional district.

Blake Masters lost the Republican primary to Abraham Hamadeh, coming in second.

Blake Masters was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1986, the son of Marilyn, who ran a tutoring center, and Scott Blake Masters, who worked in the software industry.

In high school, Blake Masters attended Green Fields Country Day School, which was at the time a private school in Tucson, where he played basketball.

Blake Masters received a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University in 2008.

Blake Masters then earned a JD from Stanford University Law School in 2012.

Blake Masters endorsed conspiracy theorist G Edward Griffin's claim that the "Houses of Morgan and Rothschild" were linked to the sinking of the Lusitania.

Blake Masters' posts became a political issue after they were unearthed during his 2022 Senate campaign.

Blake Masters spent four months in 2010 as a law clerk for a US Attorney's Office.

Renditions of Blake Masters' notes reappeared online, prompting Blake Masters to get in contact with Thiel about compiling them into a book.

The website officially launched in 2017, though Blake Masters left the project in 2014.

In October 2019, Blake Masters suggested he would launch a primary challenge against Republican US Senator Martha McSally, expressing concern McSally was not a good candidate and criticizing her loss in the 2018 election, which Blake Masters said was a "winnable" race.

In January 2020, Blake Masters said he would not run against McSally.

In March 2022, Blake Masters resigned from his positions at Thiel's investment firm and foundation to campaign in the 2022 Arizona Senate race.

Blake Masters officially entered the race in July 2021, and Thiel gave an additional $3.5 million to the pro-Blake Masters super PAC in May 2022.

Blake Masters issued non-fungible tokens to fundraise for his campaign, announcing that the first 99 donors to contribute over $5,800 to his campaign would receive a limited edition NFT that would allow access to a private chat server and live events, as well as a copy of his book signed by himself and Thiel.

Steven J Law, the leader of a Republican-aligned super PAC, said that Masters "had scored the worst focus group results of any candidate he had ever seen," and cancelled all of its Arizona television advertisements supporting Masters to divert money to other races.

Blake Masters was the weakest-performing statewide Republican candidate in Arizona, receiving fewer votes than even controversial Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem.

Blake Masters said that if elected to the Senate, he would vote to confirm federal judicial nominees only if they "understand that Roe and Griswold and Casey were wrongly decided".

Blake Masters has embraced the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, asserting that Democrats want to deliberately engineer demographic replacement of American white people via immigration.

Blake Masters has echoed Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen".

In June 2021, Blake Masters said that "it's really hard to know" the winner of the 2020 presidential election, and supported an audit of the vote in Maricopa County.

Blake Masters appeared at a fundraiser with the former president at Mar-a-Lago shortly afterward.

In March 2022, when Blake Masters was asked by a podcast interviewer to name an "underrated subversive thinker", he named Ted Kaczynski.

Blake Masters has suggested privatizing Social Security, but has opposed cuts and in August 2022 indicated support for increases to the program.

Blake Masters supported Elon Musk's proposed acquisition of Twitter, called for legislation to treat major social media companies as "common carriers" and to regulate Google's search algorithm.

In October 2023, Blake Masters announced that he would run for the seat in Arizona's 8th congressional district in the US House of Representatives in 2024, a few days after incumbent Debbie Lesko announced she would not run for re-election.

Blake Masters lost the Republican primary to Abe Hamadeh, coming in second.