{"id":73964,"date":"2026-05-24T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/trump-has-alienated-voters-ahead-of-midterms-warns-ousted-republican-thomas-massie\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:00:44","slug":"trump-has-alienated-voters-ahead-of-midterms-warns-ousted-republican-thomas-massie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/trump-has-alienated-voters-ahead-of-midterms-warns-ousted-republican-thomas-massie\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has \u2018alienated\u2019 voters ahead of midterms, warns ousted Republican Thomas Massie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP congressman says his party is set to count cost of \u2018Trump disappointment syndrome\u2019 after primary defeat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> party is on course for a damaging rejection at the ballot box in November, according to a maverick US congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/19\/kentucky-republican-primary-trump-massie\">ousted<\/a> by a challenger handpicked by the president.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, became the latest of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/23\/donald-trump-revenge-republicans-thomas-massie\">Trump\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/19\/bill-cassidy-loss-trump-louisiana\">targets<\/a> to be defeated in the party\u2019s primaries this week. He had repeatedly broken with the president over military action against Iran, government spending and the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/24\/thomas-massie-trump-republican-voters-midterms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP congressman says his party is set to count cost of \u2018Trump disappointment syndrome\u2019 after primary defeat Donald Trump\u2019s Republican party is on course for a damaging rejection at the ballot box in November, according to a maverick US congressman ousted by a challenger handpicked by the president. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, became &#8230; <a title=\"Trump has \u2018alienated\u2019 voters ahead of midterms, warns ousted Republican Thomas Massie\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/trump-has-alienated-voters-ahead-of-midterms-warns-ousted-republican-thomas-massie\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump has \u2018alienated\u2019 voters ahead of midterms, warns ousted Republican Thomas Massie\">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-73964","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\/73964","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=73964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}