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\nDonald Trump wants to keep congressional Republicans in power through the remainder of his term \u2014 but he also wants to use the midterms to punish those who have stepped off the MAGA line. Tuesday\u2019s Republican primary in Kentucky will test the bounds of the president\u2019s control over the party, its voters, and how much power he can still exert over downballot elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe race will see Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican who has represented Kentucky\u2019s fourth congressional district since 2012, face off against the Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI did not see this coming, but my election has become an inflection point for our whole country,\u201d Massie wrote Tuesday morning as polls opened in Kentucky. \u201cToday we make history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMassie \u2014 a self-described libertarian and former Tea Party member \u2014 has been drawing Trump\u2019s ire since the president\u2019s first term. Trump first called for punitive action in 2020, after Massie forced lawmakers to return to the capital during the Covid-19 pandemic, demanding Republicans \u201cthrow Massie out of the Republican Party!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe rupture between the two men has only worsened. Last year, after Massie opposed the passage of Trump\u2019s so-called Big Beautiful Bill \u2014 which included massive cuts to health care and social safety net programs \u2014 the president wrote that \u201cThird Rate Congressman Thomas Massie, a Weak and Pathetic RINO from the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, a place I love, and won big SIX TIMES, must be thrown out of office, ASAP.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMassie has since become one of the only Republicans in Congress to publicly press the Trump administration on the release of the Epstein files, and to criticize American policy towards Israel and Iran. On Tuesday, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller claimed on X that \u201con every major important initiative from the Trump Administration Massie joins all Democrats to oppose. That\u2019s why all the communist are out supporting him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Kentucky congressman has repeatedly addressed the claims of willful Democratic collaboration leveled against him by the president\u2019s allies, telling a right wing influencer on Monday that he votes \u201cwith Republicans 91 percent of the time. And the nine percent I don\u2019t, they\u2019re taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut Massie\u2019s overwhelmingly Republican voting record means nothing to a president who sets the standard at unquestioned, non-negotiable fealty. Trump endorsed Gallrein as Massie\u2019s opponent before he even entered the race, describing him as a \u201cBrave Combat Veteran,\u201d and a successful businessman.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShould he decide to challenge Massie, Captain Ed Gallrein has my Complete and Total Endorsement. RUN, ED, RUN,\u201d Trump wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd run Gallrein has \u2014 on a policy platform that promises he will remain in lockstep with the president and his movement, and a significant amount of financial backing from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which is also seeking to oust Massie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tOn Monday, Gallrein campaigned with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth \u2014 a sign of the direct hand the Trump administration is taking in its attempts to remove a congressman critical of the president. Hegseth claimed he was there as a private citizen (hard to believe there\u2019s such a distinction for a Cabinet secretary currently at war), and attempted to tie voters\u2019 decision in the primary to support for the president. \u201cPresident Trump does not need more people in Washington who are trying to make a point, especially from his own party. He needs people willing to help him win, to vote with him when it matters the most,\u201d he said. \u201cThomas Massie\u2019s record speaks for itself, too. Too much grandstanding, too few great votes, years of acting like being difficult is the same thing as being courageous. It is not.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a Truth Social post published on Monday, Trump issued a lengthy attack against Massie, after also having attacked him over the weekend. \u201cThe Great People of Kentucky are wise to Massie \u2014 He only votes against the Republican Party, making life very easy for the Radical Left,\u201d he wrote. \u201cUnlike \u2018lightweight\u2019 Massie, a totally ineffective LOSER who has failed us so badly, CAPTAIN ED GALLREIN IS A WINNER WHO WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPolling shows Gallrein could potentially steal the nomination from Massie, and affirm Trump\u2019s control over the Republican base. So confident is Trump that his public pressure campaign to oust Massie will succeed, that he\u2019s already eying new targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, the president threatened longtime loyal soldier Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) with a primary challenge of her own, after she campaigned with Massie ahead of his primary. Boebert has been one of a handful of Republicans to break with Trump on the Epstein scandal, and has refused to endorse the appropriation of additional funds for the war in Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tFormer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), once the human embodiment of MAGA politics, left Congress at the beginning of the year after a public break with the president. Greene wrote on Monday that only she and three other members of the GOP caucus \u2014 Massie, Boebert, and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) \u2014 had joined Democrats in signing the discharge petition forcing a vote on the release of the Epstein files. Trump \u201ctold Speaker Johnson not to allow the vote to happen, but we courageously went against the President and refused to budge and overrode the Speaker to force the vote on record,\u201d Greene wrote. In a separate post, she encouraged Kentuckians to \u201cvote for Thomas Massie, who was the ONLY Republican to vote with me to defund Israel and is against funding foreign wars!!!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt may be a doomed effort to keep Massie afloat. Outside of the polling showing Gallrein with an edge, a slew of Trump-endorsed challengers recently won their primaries in Indiana, after the president called on lawmakers who had refused to go along with his midterm gerrymandering push to be primaried. Over the weekend, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was easily defeated by Trump-backed challenger Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) and state Treasurer John Fleming, who advanced to a runoff. On Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made clear what the message was to members of the GOP: \u201cIf you try to destroy President Trump, you\u2019re gonna lose, because this is the party of Donald Trump,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut while Trump is racking up wins in these primaries, he may still lose the war. The president\u2019s approval rating is at a historic low and still falling. Americans continue to be battered by the increasing cost of the war in Iran, which has surged gas and fuel prices, spiked inflation, and worsened the existing cost-of-living crisis. Democrats dislike him more than ever, Republican discontent is increasing, and the critical swaths of independent voters that swung the 2024 election Trump\u2019s way are abandoning him en masse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile a MAGA candidate might do well in a closed primary with the president\u2019s full attention, Republicans tend to underperform when he isn\u2019t on the ballot. Even if Massie\u2019s congressional career doesn\u2019t survive beyond Tuesday, the electoral consequences of two years of Trump\u2019s reckless governance may be coming home to roost this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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