Masters tried to pierce Kelly's image as an independent moderate willing to work across the aisle. “You think you know better than women and doctors about abortion.” “I think we all know guys like this, guys that think they know better than everyone about everything,” Kelly said, turning to Masters. Supreme Court decision overturned last summer that guaranteed a right to an abortion. Kelly said abortion should be a personal decision and said he supports limits from Roe v.
On abortion, Masters said Thursday that he’s “pro-life as a matter of conscience” and believes states should be able to set their own laws on terminating pregnancies, but said he’d support federal legislation banning it after 15 weeks gestation.ĭuring the GOP primary, Masters said abortion was “demonic” and called for a federal personhood law that would give fetuses the rights of people. He now says he wants to protect Social Security for older and middle-aged workers while creating a private investment option for younger workers. Masters later scrubbed some controversial positions from his website. He repeatedly hammered Masters’ earlier call to “cut the knot” and “privatize Social Security,” a plan that Kelly said would “send your savings to Wall Street.” Kelly drew from a pile of controversial statements Masters made during the primary to portray him as an extremist. But since then, he has struggled to redefine his image for the more moderate swing voters he will need to win in November. Masters endeared himself to many GOP primary voters with his penchant for provocation and contrarian thinking. Numerous federal and local officials, a long list of courts, top former campaign staffers and even Trump’s own attorney general have all said there is no evidence of the fraud he alleges. Under repeated questioning, he acknowledged that he hasn’t seen evidence that the vote count or election results were manipulated, as Trump has claimed. “I suspect President Trump would be in the White House today if big tech and big media and the FBI didn’t work together to put the thumb on the scale to get Joe Biden in there,” Masters said, claiming institutions conspired to bury news stories about material on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
On Thursday night, Masters tried to pivot away from claims of a rigged election and instead blamed Trump's loss on a conspiracy among powerful institutions. Masters, a protégé of billionaire investor Peter Thiel, was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who cited the candidate’s strident support of his lies about a stolen 2020 election. Kelly, a retired astronaut and Navy pilot, first captured the seat in 2020, winning a special election to fill the remainder of the late Sen. The Arizona race is one of a handful of contests that Republicans targeted in their bid to take control of what is now a 50-50 Senate. “When the president decided he’s going to do something dumb on this and change the rules, that would create a bigger crisis, I told him he was wrong,” Kelly said. He pointed to his opposition to Biden’s plans to end a pandemic-era program that allows for the speedy removal of immigrants in the name of public health. “And Republicans just want to talk about it, complain about it but actually not do anything about it. “When I got to Washington, D.C., one of the first things I realized was the Democrats don’t understand this issue,” Kelly said.
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