Odaily News According to the results released by the Associated Press on July 31, Blake Masters, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, lost in the party's primary election. Abraham Hamadeh defeated Masters in the Republican primary with 29.8% of the vote. On the eve of the primary, the Crypto PAC Fairshake and Protect Progress's affiliate "Defend American Jobs Super PAC" spent about $600,000 in media purchases to support Masters. The Republican candidate said in May that if elected, he would become "the biggest cryptocurrency advocate ever in Washington, D.C."