Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona, has supported a federal"personhood" law that would establish that fetuses are people.
But the nature of political partisanship in America has changed over the last decade or so, raising doubts about whether that conventional wisdom still holds. Nowhere is the starkness of the these candidates’ positions more evident than on abortion, which has become a much more urgent litmus test on the right since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Mastriano, for instance, has called climate change a “theory” based on “pop science.” Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, has leaned on his background as a doctor to adopt a markedly unscientificThe “ideology that carbon is bad” is “a lie,” Oz said during a forum among primary candidates in Erie in March. “Carbon dioxide, my friends, is 0.04% of our air. That’s not the problem.
No Republican, however, has expressed his disdain for established climate science more succinctly than Sen. Ron Johnson, who is seeking reelection in Wisconsin. Don Bolduc, who is seeking the nomination for a Senate seat in New Hampshire, has called the Education Department an “ugly thing” that “needs to go away.”