Posted on 08/25/2022 4:11:01 PM PDT by Coronal
Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters softened his tone and scrubbed his website's policy page of tough abortion restrictions Thursday as his party reels from the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
In an ad posted to Twitter on Thursday, Masters sought to portray his opponent, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, as the extremist on the issue while describing his own views as "commonsense."
"Look, I support a ban on very late-term and partial-birth abortion," he said. "And most Americans agree with that. That would just put us on par with other civilized nations." (Late-term abortions are extremely rare, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker.)
Just after it released the ad, Masters' campaign published an overhaul of his website and softened his rhetoric, rewriting or erasing five of his six positions. NBC News took screenshots of the website before and after it was changed. Masters' website appeared to have been refreshed after NBC News reached out for clarification about his abortion stances.
"I am 100% pro-life," Masters' website read as of Thursday morning.
That language is now gone.
Another notable deletion: a line that detailed his support for "a federal personhood law (ideally a Constitutional amendment) that recognizes that unborn babies are human beings that may not be killed."
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Coward
Just get elected. Period! Whatever you have to do to win. Do it. This is not the time to discuss anything but getting republicans elected. The time to discuss is over. If he is awful, vote him out at the next primary.
So you believe NBC? Boy are you easy
Kansas has scared many. Look, coward or not. He must win.
Abortion needs to be THE issue or the dems are dead.
Nevermind inflation, gas prices, crime, the border, you know, the actual important issues to everyone’s day to day life. Oh no, its Abortion. The media has its mission to make it so and they won’t stop until they do.
Very true. They were given quit the gift all tied in bow.
To win the abortion debate with the public he needs to go 100% towards “my opponent supports aborting full term babies. I don’t.” Get the rats on the defensive when it comes to abortion. No one with a soul supports late term abortion. Evil demon rats support all abortions all the time. But the majority of Americans hate late term abortion.
his party reels from the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
they were celebrating
what?
is kelly down in the polls?
hit piece on Masters!!
What we are witnessing with the NY 19 race and the “abortion” stories that will follow is an emboldened agenda media’s arrogance and hubris. But is it?
I wonder how many people out there could have Joe Biden show up at their house, beat their kids to death in front of them, walk in and turn on CNN to be told that its “Trump’s fault your kids got beaten to death because he made Biden so mad and then have said people fully accept it.
The media truly believes (perhaps correctly) that they tell you what reality is and you accept it.
Kelly is currently leading, last poll I saw was 8 points.
Mark 8:36
He will lose to Commie Kelly who is playing to the middle if he doesn’t.
AZ has been inundated with Hillary Clinton’s Commie, Lesbian Brigade. Most moving here are from California
Pfffft. Yeah, right.
My thoughts exactly. same with the other alphabet channel networks.
He must be all I’m hearing is Masters is going to ban abortion and privatize social security. Actually when I think about that, privatize social security is not such a bad idea
Kelly is up by a thousand. All Democrats are invincible. He is beloved.
No, as you 'rats construct a new narrative to enable another election of voter fraud.
Abortion will be the issue in purple states. Dems will push it hard, almost to the point of getting Trump off their attack screen. It will also be an attack scenario in purple state legislative races to try to get Dem majorities in those legislatures to enact abortion laws
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