Blake Masters, Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate

Published Sep 20, 2022, 11:55 PM

Blake Masters discusses his campaign for U.S. Senate against Mark Kelly. 

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and joining us now, he's running for Senate. He wants to beat. Well, let's just say an astronaut like Masters joins us blake. How are you today? Good. Larry. How are you? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. So, you know, we look forward to trying to figure out who exactly you know, you are. We know kelly because he's been here a while. But for you, you know, we don't necessarily know you that well, it's your first time on the ballot.

Uh you know, you haven't been around long enough. My first question is, are people voting for you because they know you are they voting for you? Because you have the r by your name?

Well, it's always both, you know, and in this election where, you know, I need to give people a reason to hire me. Absolutely. And then give them plenty of reasons to fire Mark kelly. And there's a lot of reasons, there's open borders, double digit inflation, all of that. But I bring a lot to the table to and as I get my message out in Arizona has come to know me, I think they're gonna vote for me and make a change in november.

So let's talk about your message because I think a lot of people, you know,

the view, I will say, I think Mark kelly has been very effective in using some of the ads against you, some of your words against you. Uh, it has been, you know, even some of them are, you know, whether it's that new one out now with the vets and it's it can be, you know, you sit there and you think those are your words, what is your message? And where do you stand? Because I think a lot of people are wondering where you stand, whether it's, you know, it's abortion and and you know that, you know, immigration, all the stuff, they want some answers of the real you

while running on an America first agenda, right? I believe that the correct amount of illegal immigration is zero. I think it's just crazy that joe biden and Mark kelly have thrown open our southern border. We've got five million illegals welcomed here under their so called leadership. I think inflation should be about 2% not 20% which is what biden and Mark kelly have given us and call me old fashioned. I think we should teach kids reading, writing and arithmetic, not teach the

to be confused about their gender and hey, maybe you want to change your gender. Um, so I'm bold in service of a very commonsensical agenda. Mark kelly is just the opposite heel pretend to be moderate. They'll hide him away. He'll never say anything at all. And then in D. C. He just votes in lockstep for joe biden's agenda, he actually votes more left wing than Bernie Sanders does. Well, let's talk about the first thing you said, uh, blake masters joining us. He's running for Senate. Uh, illegal immigration,

plenty of people are coming over here illegally. There's no question about it. You know, chad and I are independents. We want to secure border or not for open borders. And we've said joe biden has done a terrible job. But that being said, we do have something called, you know, asylum. You can seek asylum in this country and you can do it legally. So like if you were to become a senator, would you want to change the laws for asylum seekers? Probably don't need to change the law so much as just actually enforce it. You know, one bedrock principle of internet

national asylum laws, you have to request asylum in the first safe country. You get to, you don't get to forum shop, You don't get to come from Latvia or Bangladesh or Madagascar and travel through half a dozen countries and suddenly get to the United States and say asylum and then expect the joe biden treatment. The mark kelly treatment, which is to be put on a plane and Ferried off into your preferred location. That's not the way it's supposed to work. That's not asylum law. And I'm not going to let asylum be some backdoor into mass illegal immigration.

So, uh, that's one of the things because I think, you know, again, you're a senator. Your your once spoken a wheel. I think a lot of people forget that, you know, they think the president controls everything like they're a king and that you guys are dukes and duchesses and can do whatever you want. That's not the reality of how do you work across the line because you do work with

People that don't believe the same things you do, we all want to get to the same place. How do we go about getting rid of some of this gridlock and understand there's got to be give and take. You can't just get 100% of what you want because that's a dictatorship.

Well, I agree that there's a lot of gridlock, you know, I don't think that wanting zero illegal immigration should be a part of an issue.

It's amazing that it's become partisan. I don't think that should be partisan. I would like to see more democrats hold the line against illegal immigration. But the current democrats in power won't do it. And remember one senator, you said just just one out of 100. Actually, one senator is very powerful. You know, Mark kelly as the 50th vote in the U. S. Senate. He has tremendous power. He just doesn't use it. He just goes along with biden. But if he called biden a year ago and said mr president,

we're getting killed here in Arizona, we got a terrible border crisis. I am not giving you a single thing, not a single piece of funding, not a single vote for an appointee. Unless and until we get some border security here in Arizona biden would have had to capitulate, biden would have had to secure the border. Mark kelly has that power and he failed to use it. And as a result, you've got a lot of people who have been hurt here in Arizona, a lot of dead teenagers from overdoses on fentaNYL. He just isn't willing to use his power. He just goes with the flow. And I'm not going to do that blake. Masters is joining us. He's running against Mark kelly.

Uh, we'll stick with the immigration, the asylum. All that kind of border. Uh, what do you make of these governors shipping migrants around? You know, I've said I'm torn on it. I know it's putting a spotlight on, on an issue that biden is ignoring. Um, but also I don't like using people as pawns

and that worries me. What do you what do you make of Ducey? You know, putting people on a bus and shipping them out or or de Santis, What do you what do you think joe biden's putting them on busses and planes? Five million of them. Right? You can go to Sky harbor right now and there are busses and planes arriving and leaving every single day. So they're going somewhere. They're going somewhere all de Santis did was send them to Martha's vineyard. Right? The the enclave of the moneyed libre

elite. And yeah, he was a stunt. Absolutely. But he caused the press to finally talk about this open border. So look, I don't think we should be accepting illegal aliens into this country, I believe, and remain in Mexico. I think people should be deported 2000 miles away, not to Martha's vineyard, but if they're going to go somewhere, I think it's probably good to go to Martha's vineyard. Those people couldn't stand the the illegal immigrants, they mobilized

the National Guard in less than 24 hours. It's just liberal hypocrisy on display. But they want to call de Santis a human trafficker for doing that. No, the cartel has trafficked millions of human beings in the last 18 months and they've done it basically with the tacit permission and consent of joe biden and Mark kelly

talking to blake masters. He's running against Mark kelly. Just someone of your ads up their abortion.

Uh, that's a big issue, you know, and people have brought up over the last couple of weeks, but your website kind of changed. Did it not change you wanted federal personhood? Uh, where exactly is the stance on that? I think it's easy to make it clear for everybody. So they get a real sense of, okay, this is where the stances

on pro life, I believe in limits on abortion and the whole point of reversing roe v wade with the Dobbs case was to send it back to the States

and I think it should be decided by the states early on, right? Texas is going to make slightly different laws than Arizona is going to make different laws in California. Arizona has decided 15 weeks with all the common exceptions. And I'm not gonna mess with that at the federal level. Now, I do think we need a federal backstop, right? I've called for a clean stand alone bill that bans third trimester abortions at a certain point, I think we can all agree there should be a personhood law. The federal government steps in and says, we're recognizing life here and after that,

no abortions except for the health of the mother. That's like a common sense.

What is it most? Most people believe first trimester, It's most americans after that. It falls precipitously by third trimester. It's nobody.

And the problem is the democrats don't believe in limits. Every democrat, Mark kelly sponsored this bill. He didn't just vote for, he sponsored it, unlimited abortion on demand for any reason up until birth.

And so he wants to call me the radical on this issue. No, I'm trying to save lives. I believe in pro life legislation. I believe in limits. You can debate what the limits should be, which you can't debate is whether there should be limits. And yet that's the mainstream democrat position abortion on demand up until birth, and then they want you the taxpayer to pay for it, which I think is just just horrible

Blake masters is with us. We only got about a minute left. Would you describe yourself as kind of blunt? You're a blunt guy. You're a no nonsense guy because a lot of people are like, what are you gonna ask him? You know, what are you gonna have when he's on? And I said listen, I don't know him. We got a lot of problems in this country. And how could we, how could we even hope to solve some of them if we're not even able to talk about them, right. But the problem is I speak, I don't think it's a problem. It's good. I speak from the heart. I say what's on my mind?

And you see these democrat attack ads, they're very effective at making them. They'll clip two seconds of audio or video out of context and they'll just try to to make me a villain on tv. But if people look to the 20 seconds before the 20 seconds after, if people are actually going to pay attention, talk about the policy here. I'm talking about how we have safe streets, a secure border low inflation mark kelly, he'll give you the perfect consultant provided soundbite proceed to vote with joe biden

lock step and ruin this country. So yeah, I'm bold in service of a common sense agenda and I'm proud of that. You know, usually when I say, yeah, go ahead and swear most of the time they don't do it. I took the bait.

That's okay, that's okay. You're not the first contest on earlier. He swears on numerous occasions when he was in studio he had a comment down. Uh so that is interesting. And am I invited to the big mega mega donor thing with you and you and peter Phil?

I don't know.

Let's do it. Yeah, I got one with mitch McConnell tomorrow in D. C.

Yeah, I don't want to hang out with mitch McConnell but I would like to hang out with peter Phil because I think that's gonna be a party out there. So as always you

think I'm joking, You're more than

welcome. Let's do it. All right, so we're going to hang out with mitch McConnell. Hard guards mitch McConnell here. Uh Blake masters enjoying the fun time with the Gators and chat show. Thanks so much for coming in today, my man,

pleasure to talk soon.