Rightwing Super Pac to spend $5m to back extremist Blake Masters for Senate
by Martin Pengelly in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#63JKM)
The Trump-backed Arizona Republican has been dogged by racist remarks and views he expressed as a college student
A conservative Super Pac will pour money into Arizona to support Blake Masters, the Republican US Senate candidate whose extreme views have raised alarm among Democrats but also hopes, backed by polling, that independents and moderates will not vote for him in November.
Politico reported on Monday that Sentinel Action Fund will spend at least $5m to back the Trump-endorsed candidate against the Democrat Mark Kelly, the former astronaut turned gun control campaigner who holds the Senate seat.
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