Blake Masters, a close ally of JD Vance and Peter Thiel, just lost another election

A former prosecutor, he’s a close ally of Kari Lake, the former gubernatorial candidate who officially became the GOP nominee for US Senate on Tuesday.

Much like Lake, he still has conceded his 2022 statewide loss: Hamadeh was the party’s nominee for state attorney general, and he was ultimately defeated by Democrat Kris Mayes by just 280 votes. He has since filed four lawsuits over the results. He also still suggests that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election.

Hamadeh also has an unusual background for a GOP candidate. He’s the son of Syrian immigrants, a Muslim father and a Druze mother, who faced a deportation order in 1996 after overstaying their visas. They were ultimately allowed to stay in the country in part because their children, including Hamadeh, were citizens. Masters’s campaign had gone as far as to call Hamadeh an “anchor baby.”