Thiel's online influencer investments did nothing to help Masters

Exit polls suggest that Blake underperformed among the New Right avant garde.

Tech oligarch and Peter Thiel ally Blake Masters appears to have lost his campaign for the Senate in Arizona. Thiel invested millions of dollars in Blake’s campaign, including a record $15 million during the primaries alone, and press coverage during the final coverage of the election repeatedly returned to negotiations between Thiel and the GOP to spen…