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Peter Thiel Backs Blake Masters For Possible Senate Run Against Democrat Mark Kelly Blake Masters, president of the Thiel Foundation and the chief operating officer of Thiel Capital, is expected to enter the Arizona senate race. Billionaire Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, is reportedly spending millions to support his bid. Thiel donated $10 million to the Saving Arizona PAC, a political action committee formed in April aiming to unseat former astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz. The group plans to back Masters in the GOP primary and election. It was reported in 2019 Masters might challenge...

Ex-Trump critic J.D. Vance is running for Senate after meeting with Trump and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel at Mar-a-Lago, according to new report insider@insider.com (Eliza Relman) © Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images J.D. Vance Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images Venture capitalist J.D. Vance has told friends that he will run for retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman's Ohio seat in 2022, Axios first reported on Thursday. Vance, author of the bestselling 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy,"...

Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance after bankrolling former President Donald Trump. Bob Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who were instrumental in Trump’s 2016 rise, made a “significant contribution” to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC formed last month to back Vance’s likely bid, Bryan Lanza, a spokesman for the PAC and a former Trump aide, told the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Mercers have also funded the far-right news outlet Breitbart, the far-right social network Parler, the Brexit campaign and such right-wing lawmakers as Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missour...

Mercers, Peter Thiel drop millions to back “Hillbilly Elegy” author's possible Senate run Salon 3/16/2021 Rebekah Mercer, J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images The Mercer family and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel are backing a possible Senate run by "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance after bankrolling former President Donald Trump. Bob Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who were instrumental in Trump's 2016 rise, made a "significant contribution" to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC formed last month to back Vance's likely bid, ...

16 Mar 2021 Billionaire tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel has contributed $10 million to a super PAC supporting a likely Republican bid for the U.S. Senate bid in Ohio by investor and  Hillbilly Elegy memoir author J.D. Vance. The super PAC Protect Ohio Values, which describes itself as a “network of grassroots conservatives” encouraging Vance’s candidacy, also received a “significant” donation from the conservative mega-donor Mercer family, Bryan Lanza, a communications adviser to the PAC, told The Hill, though did not say how much the Mercer’s donation was ...