{"id":73749,"date":"2026-05-19T20:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/trump-critic-thomas-massie-defeated-in-kentucky-republican-house-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:55:20","slug":"trump-critic-thomas-massie-defeated-in-kentucky-republican-house-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/trump-critic-thomas-massie-defeated-in-kentucky-republican-house-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump critic Thomas Massie defeated in Kentucky Republican House primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massie says opponents \u2018decided to buy the seat\u2019 as victory for Ed Gallrein shows strength of president\u2019s grip on party<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\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#top-of-blog\">Midterm primaries \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/16\/kentucky-republican-primary-election-massie-gallrein\">maverick congressman Thomas Massie<\/a> in favour of the US president\u2019s hand-picked challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Gallrein, a retired navy Seal and farmer who was recruited into the race by Trump, defeated the seven-term incumbent in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/16\/kentucky-republican-primary-election-massie-gallrein\">primary election in Kentucky\u2019s fourth congressional district<\/a> in what the president\u2019s allies framed as a test of whether dissent could still exist inside today\u2019s Republican party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/19\/kentucky-republican-primary-trump-massie\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massie says opponents \u2018decided to buy the seat\u2019 as victory for Ed Gallrein shows strength of president\u2019s grip on party Midterm primaries \u2013 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\u2019s hand-picked challenger. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump critic Thomas Massie defeated in Kentucky Republican House primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/trump-critic-thomas-massie-defeated-in-kentucky-republican-house-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump critic Thomas Massie defeated in Kentucky Republican House primary\">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-73749","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\/73749","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=73749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}