Trump 支援するs Arizona 候補者 who echoes 2020 選挙 lies
PHOENIX (AP) - Donald Trump on Thursday 是認するd 投資家 Blake Masters in the （人が）群がるd 共和国の／共和党の 上院 最初の／主要な in Arizona, 特記する／引用するing the 候補者's strident support of Trump's lies about the 2020 選挙.
The former 大統領，／社長 said in a 声明 that Masters is a "広大な／多数の／重要な modern-day thinker" and that Masters´ 長，指導者 競争相手, Arizona 司法長官 示す Brnovich, has done nothing about the 選挙 詐欺 that Trump 誤って （人命などを）奪う，主張するs cost him a second 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語.
共和国の／共和党のs hope the 勝利者 of the Aug. 2 最初の／主要な can unseat Sen. 示す Kelly, who 直面するs no major 対立 for the Democratic 指名／任命, and flip 支配（する）／統制する of the 上院 支援する to the GOP in one of the most closely contested 総選挙 races in November.
Trump´s 裏書，是認 could shake up a 最初の／主要な （選挙などの）運動をする that is without a （疑いを）晴らす 前線-走者 and is 大部分は defined by (v)策を弄する／(n)騎手ing for Trump´s 支援. にもかかわらず his reelection loss to 民主党員 Joe Biden, Trump remains popular with his party´s 核心 支持者s.
Trump on Thursday also 是認するd construction (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Tim Michels in Wisconsin's GOP 州知事の 最初の／主要な, sidestepping the 明言する／公表する's former 中尉／大尉／警部補 知事 and 挿入するing himself into yet another 競争の激しい race.
The 裏書，是認 is likely to elevate Michels, a late entrant into the race, and 示すs a blow for Rebecca Kleefisch, who served as 中尉／大尉／警部補 知事 under former Gov. Scott Walker and has been 主要な in the 投票s. The 勝利者 of the Aug. 9 最初の／主要な will will 直面する Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
FILE - Former 大統領，／社長 Donald Trump speaks during the Leadership 会議 at the 国家の ライフル銃／探して盗む 協会 年次の 会合 at the George R. Brown 条約 中心 Friday, May 27, 2022, in Houston. Trump 是認するd 投資家 Blake Masters in Arizona's （人が）群がるd U.S. 上院 最初の／主要な Thursday, June 2, giving his blessing to another acolyte of tech 投資家 Peter Thiel after his nod helped "Hillbilly Elegy" author JD Vance 安全な・保証する the GOP 指名／任命 in Ohio. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, とじ込み／提出する)
In 選ぶing Masters in Arizona, Trump 味方するd with another acolyte of tech 投資家 Peter Thiel after Trump's 支援 helped "Hillbilly Elegy" author JD Vance 安全な・保証する the GOP 指名／任命 in Ohio last month.
Masters, 35, has been a 猛烈な／残忍な critic of the 科学（工学）技術 産業 where he built his career and has given 発言する／表明する to the cultural grievances that animate GOP base 投票者s. He has called for 減ずるing 合法的な 移民／移住 and espoused the baseless "広大な／多数の／重要な 交替／補充" 共謀 theory, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing 民主党員s are trying to "取って代わる Americans who were born here."
He has said "I think Trump won in 2020," and has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that 選挙 公式の／役人s, the マスコミ and big tech companies "conspired to manipulate the 2020 選挙."
Trump, who has long hyped the 力／強力にする of his 裏書，是認s and held up his 記録，記録的な／記録する as a 手段 of his 現在進行中の 持つ／拘留する on the 共和国の／共和党の Party, has been bruised by a 一連の losses in 早期に 最初の／主要な races in 最近の weeks.
Last month, Georgia 投票者s 拒絶するd Trump's 成果／努力s to punish the 共和国の／共和党の 知事 and 長官 of 明言する／公表する, both of whom rebuffed Trump´s 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 成果／努力s to overturn the results of the 2020 大統領の 選挙. Trump's chosen 候補者s lost in Nebraska, Idaho and North Carolina. In Pennsylvania, the 上院 最初の／主要な that pitted Trump-是認するd celebrity heart 外科医 Mehmet Oz against former hedge 基金 CEO David McCormick is in the 中央 of a recount.
But the former 大統領，／社長 does have some major 勝利，勝つs, 特に in Ohio last month, where Vance spiked in the 投票s after Trump´s 裏書，是認 in the 上院 race.
Trump is counting on the next 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of major 最初の／主要なs to 反対する perceptions that his 影響（力） over the 共和国の／共和党の Party is 病弱なing as he lays the 基礎 for a 2024 大統領の run.
In 新規加入 to the Arizona 上院 race, Trump is 的ing Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a 長，指導者 Trump critic who 投票（する）d for his 告発 and is the 最高の，を越す 共和国の／共和党の on the House 委員会 調査／捜査するing the attack on the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump held a 決起大会／結集させる last 週末 in the 明言する／公表する to 上げる Cheney's 最初の／主要な 挑戦者, Harriet Hageman, who is 現在／一般に far ahead in the 投票s.
Masters, who grew up in Tucson and moved 支援する to southern Arizona in 2018, was until recently a 上級の (n)役員／(a)執行力のある for Thiel´s 投資 会社／堅い and 創立／基礎. Masters is making his first run for political office.
He 伸び（る）d notoriety in some circles for his 詳細（に述べる）d 公式文書，認めるs on a class Thiel ta ught at Stanford University. The two 共同製作するd on the 2014 調書をとる／予約する, "無 to One: 公式文書，認めるs on Startups, or How to Build the 未来," and Masters went to work for Thiel. He rose to 長，指導者 operating officer of Thiel 資本／首都 and 大統領，／社長 of the Thiel 創立／基礎.
Trump had long been 推定する／予想するd to 是認する Masters. Like Vance, Masters is a Thiel prot?g? whose （選挙などの）運動をする has received millions in support from the tech 億万長者, who co-設立するd PayPal and was an 早期に 投資家 in Facebook. Many had 推定する／予想するd Trump to make his support 公式の／役人 after Vance´s 勝利，勝つ.
"にもかかわらず having such an amazing 商売／仕事 career and wonderful family, Blake has decided that he wants to make a difference for the people of our Country," Trump said in a 声明 是認するing Masters.
He said Masters would be strong on 国境 安全 and gun 権利s, would 削減（する） 税金s and 規則s, and would support the 軍の.
Masters, in 返答, said in a 声明, "I wish everyone could know how this feels." He said that "soon we will have a young, fearless, dynamic America First 連合 in the U.S. 上院."
As in most contested 共和国の／共和党の 最初の／主要なs, Trump´s Arizona 裏書，是認 is a prize that was the 支配する of 激しい positioning by most of the 候補者s. Several, 含むing Masters, made 多重の trips to Trump´s 損なう-a-Lago home in Florida and sought 好意 with the former 大統領，／社長´s 助言者s. Last summer, 実業家 Jim Lamon, in a 企て，努力，提案 to draw Trump's attention, 空気／公表するd an 広告 on Fox News in the New York-New Jersey market while Trump was staying at his ゴルフ course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Trump in April 支配するd out 支援 Brnovich, who has opened a 犯罪の 調査 into the 2020 選挙 in Arizona´s largest 郡 after （人命などを）奪う，主張するs of 詐欺 by Trump and his 同盟（する）s based on 共謀 theories and 誤って導くing data. Brnovich has trumpeted some of the 主張s, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing they raise questions about that 選挙, but he did not 配達する what Trump 手配中の，お尋ね者 most: 起訴，告発s of 選挙 労働者s.
Trump again a ttacked Brnovich in his 声明 是認するing Masters, repeating the falsehood that the 選挙 in Arizona was "rigged and stolen."
Brnovich defended his 記録，記録的な／記録する on the 2020 選挙 in a 声明 答える／応じるing to Trump's 裏書，是認, pointing to his continuing 調査s of 詐欺 主張s. Lamon 二塁打d 負かす／撃墜する on attacking Masters, whom he called "a wholly-owned 子会社 of a Big Tech, California 億万長者."
Trump has made a habit of 発表するing his 裏書，是認s just days or weeks before major races. That can 追加する to the 演劇, but it also gives the （選挙などの）運動をするs he supports little time to publicize his 裏書，是認. Trump has 公式文書，認めるd in the days after the Pennsylvania 最初の／主要な that his 裏書，是認 of Oz （機の）カム "very late, many days AFTER 早期に 投票（する）ing began," 示唆するing he may have come to 認める that 衝撃 of his タイミング.
Former Arizona 国家の Guard Adjutant Gen. Mick McGuire and 明言する／公表する 公共事業（料金）／有用性 regulator Justin Olson also are running for the 上院 指名／任命.
Kelly is a retired 宇宙飛行士 who became 井戸／弁護士席-known in the 明言する／公表する when his wife, then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was 発射 and 批判的に 負傷させるd at a 選挙権を持つ／選挙人 event in Tucson in 2011. Kelly was elected last year to finish the last two years of the late GOP Sen. John McCain´s 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 and is now 捜し出すing a 十分な six-year 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語.
Once a GOP 要塞／本拠地, Arizona has become a battleground thanks to a growing Latino 全住民, an influx of more 穏健な newcomers and 共和国の／共和党のs' struggles with 郊外の women during the Trump 大統領／総裁などの地位.
The race will serve as a 実験（する） of how 耐えるing those Democratic 伸び（る）s will be. 投票s show Biden´s 是認 率ing floundering and 投票者s 失望させるd with 法外な インフレーション and rising gas prices.
The Club for Growth, a powerful spending group that has 衝突／不一致d with Trump in 最近の weeks, spending millions 支援 競争相手s of several of his chosen 候補者s, 賞賛するd Trump's 決定／判定勝ち（する） in Arizona.
The organization's 大統領，／社長, David McIntosh, said that when the group and Trump work toge ther, "real 保守的なs 勝利，勝つ, and that´s 正確に／まさに what will happen in Arizona."
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Arizona 司法長官 示す Brnovich speaks during his Thursday, June 2, 2022 visit to the Yuma Sun in Yuma, Ariz. Donald Trump on Thursday 是認するd 投資家 Blake Masters in the （人が）群がるd 共和国の／共和党の 上院 最初の／主要な in Arizona, 味方するing with another acolyte of tech 投資家 Peter Thiel after the former 大統領，／社長's support helped "Hillbilly Elegy" author JD Vance 安全な・保証する the GOP 指名／任命 in Ohio. Trump, in a 声明 発表するing his 決定／判定勝ち（する）, called Masters a "広大な／多数の／重要な modern-day thinker" and slammed Masters' 長，指導者 競争相手, Brnovich, for doing too little to 促進する Trump's lies about the 2020 White House 選挙 he lost. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun 経由で AP)
