The strength of former President Trump’s endorsement will face yet more high-profile tests in the coming months as the midterm primary season wraps up.
Trump’s endorsement has seen mixed results so far, though most of the major candidates he supported have won their races.
Still, the former president’s endorsed candidates are facing some contentious final GOP primary battles. Here are seven Trump-endorsed candidates to watch as the primary season comes to a close.
Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters
Trump threw his support behind venture capitalist Blake Masters in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary last month, calling Masters a “great modern-day thinker” and “one of the most successful businessmen and investors in the Country.”
Trump also pointed to Masters’s support of his false claim that he won the 2020 presidential election.
Trump and Masters have since appeared together in an ad. The former president was also scheduled to stump with Masters last weekend, but the rally was postponed in the wake of his former wife Ivana Trump’s death.
Masters is one of five candidates running in the GOP primary to take on incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in November. The crowded field includes Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, businessman Jim Lamon, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Mick McGuire and former state Rep. Justin Olson. When he endorsed Masters, Trump labeled Brnovich a “disappointment” and accused him of not doing more to reverse his 2020 loss in Arizona.
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