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Blake Masters, an ally of Sen. J.D. Vance and tech billionaire Peter Thiel (R-Ohio), suffered another loss when, in late July, Abe Hamadeh — another far-right MAGA Republican — defeated him in a U.S. House primary in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District. This loss comes two years after now-Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) defeated him in Arizona’s 2022 U.S. Senate race. In an article published on August 5, Slate’s Alexander Sammon stresses that Masters’ loss to Hamadeh raises a question: Was Masters too “weird” and “creepy” even for MAGA voters? “He said creepy things this time around too,” Sammon …