Will stolen election claims by Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters get him sued?

Blake Masters needs to watch his … mouth.

The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Arizona has been campaigning out of the Donald Trump playbook, spouting conspiracy theories, refusing to say he’d accept the outcome of the election and making dicey claims about vote tabulating machines.

According to The Daily Beast, Masters told a Phoenix gathering that even if he won by a landslide the voting machines Arizona uses would “flip the vote” for Democrat Mark Kelly.

Masters said, “Unfortunately, we still have the machines in this election,” meaning Dominion Voting Systems’ machines, about which Republicans and their operatives have been spreading lies since the 2020 elections.

They sued Trump attorneys and the MyPillow guy

And, rightfully, getting sued for it.

Dominion has filed more than $1 billion in legal claims against the MyPillow guy, Mike Lindell, as well as Trump attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani. The company also has sued Fox News.

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Counter claims filed by Powell and Giuliani have been rejected, and just recently the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge by Lindell to toss the defamation suit Dominion filed against him.

Concerning their claim against Fox News, Dominion’s lawyers said the network “knowingly spread lies about Dominion Voting Systems repeatedly for months, all the while deliberately ignoring Dominion’s specific and repeated warnings that these smears were not true. Furthermore, multiple U.S. government agencies, third parties, and elected officials across 28 states have conclusively affirmed that no voting system deleted, lost, or changed votes in the 2020 election.”

Fox News, through a spokesperson, seems undeterred, saying in part, "We are confident we will prevail," and calling Dominion's lawsuit  "nothing more than a flagrant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their jobs.”

Although, some of us in the profession would argue that it's just the opposite, in that Dominion is trying to get journalists like those on Fox News to actually DO their jobs.

Kelli Ward also is on Dominion's radar

Masters also doesn’t seem to have learned from what has been reported about these suits. Or even learned a lesson from the experience of Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, who was part of a federal lawsuit filed by Trump attorney Sidney Powell.

They alleged “massive widespread fraud” in the state’s election, going so far as to claim in the lawsuit that Venezuela, Iran and China used Dominion’s tabulation machines to rig the election for Biden. That, too, was dismissed by a court.

Dominion is not messing around.

It has gone after the big fish first, but it also mentions on its website that it has “sent preservation request letters to more than 150 other individuals and news organizations.” Those letters represent notifications sent by Dominion’s lawyers to potential defendants demanding they preserve anything pertinent to what could be more defamation cases.

If Masters keeps up with the BS about Dominion’s tabulation machines he might be in line for such a letter.

Although, having said what he said in public, that information is already preserved.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Blake Masters' stolen election claims could get him sued