Blake Masters scrubbed his website again. Is anybody buying his sudden makeover?

The Blake Masters’ 20-Day Cleanse to Moderation continues.

First, he scrubbed his Senate campaign website of both his vow to be “100% pro life” and his call for a national abortion ban.

Now, CNN is reporting that Arizona’s main MAGA man has pulled on some rubber gloves to wipe away a mention of Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election.

I picture Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward, falling over in dead faint.

Blake Masters is trying to moderate

Masters was a political unknown who emerged from a crowded field of Republicans to win the Aug. 2 primary after snagging Trump’s endorsement.

From all accounts, he’s a smart guy. A Stanford educated venture capitalist who apparently thinks that moderate Republican women and independent voters are pushovers. Either that, or they have the attention span of a goldfish.

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Clearly, Masters is in a full-out scramble to try to win them over, understanding that they are his ticket to knocking off Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in Arizona’s Senate race.

Here is what the old Blake Masters said on his campaign page waaaay back on Aug. 1, when he was wooing conserative Republican voters: “We need to get serious about election integrity. The 2020 election was a rotten mess – if we had had a free and fair election, President Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office today and America would be so much better off.”

And here is what post-primary Blake Masters says on his campaign website: “We need to get serious about election integrity.”

He's cleansed his election, border stances

The old Blake Masters sounded the alarm that Democrats are intentionally scheming to open the U.S.-Mexico border to illegal immigration in order to replace us.

“Joe Biden and Mark Kelly caused this crisis,” he wrote, on his pre-primary election campaign site. “They canceled the Border Wall construction. They invite illegals to come here and give them housing and cash. The Democrats dream of mass amnesty, because they want to import a new electorate.”

The new Blake Masters makes no mention of importing a new electorate – a vague reference to the Great Replacement Theory, which holds that non-white immigrants are invading our country to take it away from the white people who rightfully live here.

I picture state Sen. Wendy Rogers, who has built a national following by spewing such racist trash, in a full-on face plant.

This after he trashed his '100% pro life' claim

Masters’ latest campaign cleanse comes just days after NBC reported he has scrubbed his website clean of the hard-line abortion policies that were his hallmark when he was pitching himself to Republican primary voters.

Gone is his claim to be “100% pro life.”

Gone is his pledge to “support a federal personhood law (ideally a Constitutional amendment) that recognizes that unborn babies are human beings that may not be killed.”

Now he’s vowing to “support a law or a Constitutional amendment that bans late term (third trimester) abortion and partial-birth abortion at the federal level.”  You know, when abortions hardly ever happen.

The old MAGA Masters vowed to support “the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” which would make performing an abortion at 20 weeks a crime.

The new and supposedly improved Masters eliminated any mention of that vow.

The old Masters vowed to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Casey were wrongly decided, and that there is no constitutional right to abortion.”

Until last week, when that statement, too, went missing from his campaign website.

I picture the Center for Arizona Policy’s Cathi Herrod, joining Rogers and Ward – and a fair number of Republican voters – wondering what the heck happened to Masters. How could a guy so quickly abandon his core beliefs?

Funny, I picture a fair number of savvy independents and moderates wondering the same thing.

Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.

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