Two Trump-endorsed candidates who have spread falsehoods about the 2020 election win Arizona's GOP primaries for Senate and secretary of state
Blake Masters, the onetime venture capitalist, will secure the Republican nomination for US Senate, while Arizona Republicans have chosen state Rep. Mark Finchem, an election denier, as their nominee to take the helm of the state's election machinery, CNN projects.Masters will face Democratic Sen.
Read MoreFinchem is aiming to be the chief elections officer in a state that conducts its voting largely by mail and has been the target of a series of conspiracy theories advanced by Trump and his allies, who falsely allege that the 2020 election was stolen from the former President. The Arizona secretary of state is the state's second-highest executive elected official and first in line to succeed the governor, as the state does not have a lieutenant governor.
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