{"id":73716,"date":"2026-05-19T06:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/voters-in-six-states-head-to-polls-with-kentuckys-massie-facing-trumps-fury-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:56:05","slug":"voters-in-six-states-head-to-polls-with-kentuckys-massie-facing-trumps-fury-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/voters-in-six-states-head-to-polls-with-kentuckys-massie-facing-trumps-fury-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters in six states head to polls with Kentucky\u2019s Massie facing Trump\u2019s fury \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contest seen as latest test of president\u2019s grip on GOP as he urges voters to reject one of the few senior Republicans who has defied him<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email <\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The US government has said it will increase the number of white South Africans it admits as refugees this year from about 7,500 to 17,500, claiming that \u201cunforeseen developments in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/southafrica\">South Africa<\/a> created an emergency refugee situation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since starting his second term in office last year, Donald Trump has repeatedly made false claims that white Afrikaners are racially targeted and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/21\/trump-south-africa-president-meeting\">face a \u201cwhite genocide\u201d<\/a>, which South Africa\u2019s government has furiously rebutted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/19\/donald-trump-primaries-midterms-republicans-kentucky-thomas-massie-pennsylvania-georgia-alabama-oregon-idaho-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contest seen as latest test of president\u2019s grip on GOP as he urges voters to reject one of the few senior Republicans who has defied him Sign up for the Breaking News US email The US government has said it will increase the number of white South Africans it admits as refugees this year from &#8230; <a title=\"Voters in six states head to polls with Kentucky\u2019s Massie facing Trump\u2019s fury \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/voters-in-six-states-head-to-polls-with-kentuckys-massie-facing-trumps-fury-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Voters in six states head to polls with Kentucky\u2019s Massie facing Trump\u2019s fury \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}