Former President Donald Trump encouraged Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters to talk about election fraud in a phone call revealed as part of a new documentary from Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The conversation, shown in a Tucker Carlson Original streaming on Fox Nation, took place after Masters said in a debate this month against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly that there was no evidence of the vote count being rigged in favor of President Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump urged Masters to take cues from Kari Lake, a Republican candidate running for governor in Arizona, who has made election integrity a top priority in her campaign.
New—>Tucker Carlson doc on Blake Masters shows him taking call from Trump:
“If you want to get across the line, you need to be stronger on that one thing…lot of complaints about. Look at Kari … if they say, ‘How is your family?’ She says, ‘The election was rigged & stolen.’” https://t.co/hiU0TaC3Nx pic.twitter.com/BVtyNuHSuz
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) October 25, 2022
“If you want to get across the line, you need to be stronger on that one thing … lot of complaints about. Look at Kari … and if they say, ‘How is your family?’ She says, ‘The election was rigged and stolen.’ You’ll lose if you go soft,” Trump said.
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Despite his answer in the debate, in which he said Biden is the “legitimate president,” Master had already established himself as being a Republican who has denied the results of the 2020 election, cutting an ad in which he said he believes Trump “won” in 2020.
Kelly leads Masters by 2.5 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.
