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Did Blake Masters revise his stance on privatizing social security?

By Ngan Nguyen
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In a June 2022 debate, Blake Masters, who was at the time vying to become the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona, suggested privatization of social security as a method of entitlement reform.
During the FreedomWorks Arizona Senate Forum, Masters said, “We’ve got to cut the knot at some point, though, I’m not going to receive Social Security…Maybe we should privatize Social Security, right? Private retirement accounts, get the government out of it, because the government, it is just too big."
Masters won the Republican nomination in August 2022 and subsequently revised his previous statement. When asked about social security in an interview with Arizona's Family, Masters stated he does not want to privatize it, and said “that was probably a misstatement.” In an August interview, he also told The Arizona Republic, “I do not want to privatize Social Security.”

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Arizona's Family Arizona Republican Senate nominee Blake Masters fires back at attack ad
FreedomWorks Media FreedomWorks Arizona Senate Forum
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