At his victory party, Gallrein told supporters he had come “a long way” from his childhood at his family’s dairy farm to become the nominee.<\/p>\n
“The winner of the race tonight is not so much Ed Gallrein,” he said. “It’s the Republicans of Kentucky district four and their families who I will be a champion for in Washington.”<\/p>\n
He went on to thank Trump for his support and his “counsel” during the race.<\/p>\n
Many of the president’s biggest donors backed Gallrein, and more than $32m (\u00a323m) was spent on campaign advertising in the Kentucky district.<\/p>\n
In his concession speech, Massie said voters had indicated they wanted someone who would “go along to get along”, but added: “There is a yearning in this country for somebody who will vote for principles over party.”<\/p>\n
He criticised the administration’s foreign aid spending, the plans to build a White House ballroom, the large donations to his opponent and a decision by Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth to campaign in Kentucky for Gallrein on Monday.<\/p>\n
“They panicked and sent the Secretary of War here, and you stopped the war for a day,” he said, as his supporters cheered his name and chanted “America first”.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Trump criticised Massie in a series of social media posts, calling him “an obstructionist and a fool”.<\/p>\n
Massie then touted his record of voting with Trump “90% of the time,” but added that the president and his allies “want 100% compliance”.<\/p>\n
“It’s only the 10% of the time they’re mad about – when I won’t vote for a war, when I won’t vote for warrantless spying and when I won’t vote to bankrupt the country,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At his victory party, Gallrein told supporters he had come “a long way” from his childhood at his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-593829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}