In January 2011 he met Thiel at Stanford Law School. Masters spent four months in 2010 as a law clerk for a U.S. Work with Peter Thiel and political involvement

The Anti-Defamation League criticized him, and Masters' primary rival Jim Lamon ran television ads highlighting the posts. Masters' posts became a political issue after they were unearthed during his 2022 Senate campaign. I went too far and stated that no recent American wars have been just.' He added: 'I suppose it was only a matter of time before I got called antisemitic for criticizing wartime propaganda in an essay I wrote as a teenager.' On his 2006 writings, he told the Jewish Insider in 2022, 'I was 19, writing in opposition to the Iraq War-a stance that turned out to be prescient. ĭuring his college years, Masters contended that Iraq and al-Qaeda were not 'substantial threats to Americans', calling for 'unrestricted immigration' and an isolationist foreign policy. Edward Griffin's claim that the ' Houses of Morgan and Rothschild' were linked to the sinking of the Lusitania. entry into World War I and described a quote from Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, on the susceptibility of the masses to incitements of war, as being 'particularly representative and poignant'. In a 2006 essay criticizing the War in Iraq on the libertarian site, Masters decried U.S. Blog posts Īs a teenage undergraduate, Masters expressed his political views on a CrossFit chat room and a LiveJournal blog. from Stanford University Law School in 2012. Masters received a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University in 2008. In high school, Masters attended Green Fields Country Day School, which was at the time a private school in Tucson, where he played basketball. Masters was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1986, the son of Marilyn, who ran a tutoring center, and Scott Masters, who worked in the software industry. Masters benefited from $15 million in funding from Thiel during the primary campaign but lost to incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly. Throughout his campaign, he aligned himself with Thiel and former president Donald Trump, both of whom endorsed him in June 2022. In the 2022 United States Senate election in Arizona, Masters defeated state Attorney General Mark Brnovich and businessman Jim Lamon in the August 2 primary to become the Republican Party nominee. He was later chief operating officer of Thiel's investment firm, Thiel Capital, and also president of the Thiel Foundation. Frequently referred to as a protégé of businessman Peter Thiel, Masters co-wrote Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future with Thiel in 2014, based on notes Masters had taken at Stanford Law School in 2012. Blake Gates Masters (born August 5, 1986) is an American venture capitalist and political candidate.

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