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 the party primary, and Abraham Hamadeh defeated Masters in the Republican primary with 29.8% of the votes. In the run-up to the primaries, crypto PAC Fairshake and Protect Progress's affiliate, the Safeguard 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."