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Massie says opponents ‘decided to buy the seat’ as victory for Ed Gallrein shows strength of president’s grip on party Midterm primaries – live updates Donald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the maverick congressman Thomas Massie in favour of the US president’s hand-picked challenger. … Read more

Republican Andy Barr thanks President Trump and retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell after he won the GOP nomination for the Senate seat in the Kentucky primary. Trump backed Barr and urged Nate Morris, a businessman with strong ties to his MAGA movement, to end his campaign for the GOP nomination and instead accept an ambassadorship.

A Democratic House candidate from Texas is fielding criticism from some in her own party after she pledged to send American Zionists to a facility currently being used to detain undocumented immigrants. In an Instagram post last week, Maureen Galindo said she would turn the “Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists … Read more

President Donald Trump’s endorsement wasn’t enough to carry Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to outright victory in the Republican primary race to succeed term-limited conservative Gov. Brian Kemp. But the president’s backing did help Jones advance to a runoff in the race for the GOP nomination in the crucial southeastern battleground state. Jones and healthcare … Read more

Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie has won the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District, NBC News projects — the first contested result in key Pennsylvania races that could decide control of the House.

Republican defeated in primary says backing Trump’s conviction ‘may have cost me my seat, but who cares?’ Returning to the US Capitol after a stinging primary re-election loss, Bill Cassidy, a Republican senator of Louisiana, said he had no regrets about his “momentous” vote to convict Donald Trump on 2021 impeachment charges during his first … Read more

President says $400m building costs to be funded by private donors, but has asked for taxpayers to cover security costs Shouting over the banging and clanging sounds from heavy construction equipment, Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a group of reporters a closer look at the construction for the White House ballroom he’s building on the … Read more

The Senate voted to move forward with a resolution to force President Donald Trump to end the war in Iran, a breakthrough for the Democratic-led effort.

Hundreds of firefighters continue to battle the wind-driven fire in the Simi Valley area as at least one home is destroyed More than 17,000 people were under evacuation orders in southern California on Tuesday as a wildfire threatened suburban homes. The wind-driven Sandy fire was reported Monday in the hills above Simi Valley, about 30 … Read more

Fmr. State Rep. Charles Booker (D-Ky.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss his bid to flip retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) Senate seat.