{"id":11533,"date":"2022-08-03T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/03\/blake-masters-is-splitting-the-difference-between-donald-trump-and-peter-thiel\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:54:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:54:37","slug":"blake-masters-is-splitting-the-difference-between-donald-trump-and-peter-thiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/03\/blake-masters-is-splitting-the-difference-between-donald-trump-and-peter-thiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Masters is splitting the difference between Donald Trump and Peter Thiel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/2\/23289084\/blake-masters-senate-arizona-gop-primary-election-mark-kelly<\/a>
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In campaign ads and stump speeches, Blake Masters is playing Trump\u2019s greatest hits. He complains about \u201cwokeness,\u201d talks openly about American decline, and demands that the government finish building the wall on the southern border. But unlike Trump, Masters\u2019 political ambitions reimagine America in the eyes of Silicon Valley and one of its most powerful \u2014 and controversial \u2014 investors.<\/p>\n

On the heels of Trump\u2019s endorsement, Masters is poised to win Tuesday\u2019s primary and become the GOP\u2019s next Senate nominee in Arizona. But his mentor Peter Thiel casts a long shadow over his candidacy and raises the stakes to something much larger than a single Senate seat. Over the last decade, Masters has studied under Thiel at Stanford, led Thiel\u2019s powerful investment firm, and co-authored the pair\u2019s New York Times <\/em>bestseller Zero to One<\/em>, a contrarian guide for Silicon Valley startup founders that denounces higher education and encourages monopolization.<\/p>\n

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