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Masters Moonwalking Away from Anti-Abortion Extremism

(Screenshot: Blake Masters for Senate / YouTube)
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August 30, 2022 9:40 p.m.
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There’s been quite a lot of coverage in recent weeks of Republican anti-abortion diehards running away from their positions in light of the Dobbs backlash. There’s been particular attention to Arizona senate candidate Blake Masters who scrubbed the portion of his site focused on abortion. But until today I hadn’t seen just how total a change he now claims to embrace all while still claiming not to have changed his position at all.

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