{"id":73769,"date":"2026-05-20T06:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-tightens-grip-on-gop-after-massies-defeat-in-kentucky-primary-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:55:17","slug":"trump-tightens-grip-on-gop-after-massies-defeat-in-kentucky-primary-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-tightens-grip-on-gop-after-massies-defeat-in-kentucky-primary-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tightens grip on GOP after Massie\u2019s defeat in Kentucky primary \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Congressman defeated by Trump-backed challenger in most expensive House primary in history<\/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>The Republican primary campaign for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> governor will go to a June runoff, with the lieutenant governor Burt Jones facing off against healthcare billionaire and political newcomer Rick Jackson \u2013 and locking out Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state and longtime political enemy of Donald Trump who was on track to finish a distant third.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, a political newcomer who was relatively unknown in the state, upended the contest by pouring nearly $50mn of his own money into campaign advertising. Republican candidates spent more than $100m in total, according to tracking figures from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdImpact_Pol\/status\/2041191536436658366?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_atlanta&amp;stream=top\">AdImpact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/20\/donald-trump-republicans-midterms-primaries-kentucky-redistricting-raul-castro-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Congressman defeated by Trump-backed challenger in most expensive House primary in history Sign up for the Breaking News US email The Republican primary campaign for Georgia governor will go to a June runoff, with the lieutenant governor Burt Jones facing off against healthcare billionaire and political newcomer Rick Jackson \u2013 and locking out Brad &#8230; <a title=\"Trump tightens grip on GOP after Massie\u2019s defeat in Kentucky primary \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-tightens-grip-on-gop-after-massies-defeat-in-kentucky-primary-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump tightens grip on GOP after Massie\u2019s defeat in Kentucky primary \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-73769","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\/73769","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=73769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}