{"id":653940,"date":"2026-05-20T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653940\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:07:07","slug":"thomas-massie-loses-to-trump-endorsed-ed-gallrein-in-kentucky-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653940\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Massie loses to Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein in Kentucky GOP primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VY5RB7YS3FFANDXEOVLWNHV2IU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) on Tuesday lost his primary to a challenger backed by President Donald Trump, the latest casualty in Trump\u2019s efforts to exile his critics from the GOP. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"D7UL6ZV4FRF5VNFQAOUQQEB3WA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Ed Gallrein, a farmer and former Navy SEAL recruited by Trump, beat Massie in the most expensive U.S. House primary on record, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2026\/05\/19\/kentucky-house-primary-election-results-2026-live-updates\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2026\/05\/19\/kentucky-house-primary-election-results-2026-live-updates\/\">projects<\/a>. The race drew more than $32 million in ad spending. Trump allies and pro-Israel groups long opposed to Massie invested heavily, testing the president\u2019s grip on the Republican base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) on Tuesday lost his primary to a challenger backed by President Donald Trump, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-653940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}