{"id":175,"date":"2026-05-19T10:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:36:44","slug":"duke-massie-challenge-becomes-gops-marquee-primary-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"DUKE: Massie Challenge Becomes GOP\u2019s Marquee Primary Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p><i><span>Hey y\u2019all, welcome back to Unfit to Print!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Today we\u2019re covering the testy primary fight in Kentucky, Trump\u2019s China trip, and some DC-related updates.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=173\">Two US Navy Jets Collide Midair, Prompting Service Member Ejections, Closure Of Air Force Base<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>BLUEGRASS BRAWL\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The GOP civil war over Kentucky\u2019s 4th District is coming down to the wire, with President Donald Trump\u2019s effort to oust Republican Rep. Thomas Massie turning into one of the party\u2019s marquee primary fights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Massie is facing former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, whom Trump endorsed after months of blasting Massie as disloyal over his support for releasing the Epstein files and his opposition to the war with Iran.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p><span>The race has increasingly become a proxy fight over Trump, foreign policy and Israel. Massie recently claimed \u201cthe Israeli lobby\u201d was <\/span><span>spending heavily<\/span><span> to defeat him, and then he introduced legislation to force AIPAC to register as a foreign agent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=171\">California DA Slams State Supreme Court After \u2018Devastating\u2019 Ruling On Bail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Daily Caller has <\/span><span>reported<\/span><span> several wrinkles complicating the anti-Massie push. Gallrein raised $1.2 million in the fourth quarter after Trump backed him, but a Caller review later found that 85% of his max-out donors had a history of giving to Democrats. The Caller also <\/span><span>reported<\/span><span> Sunday that there are inconsistencies in Gallrein\u2019s claims about his military service and that he went through a weird, messy divorce that involved basically paying his ex-wife \u201cchild support\u201d for her two cats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Team Trump sent in the big guns Monday, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth <\/span><span>appearing<\/span><span> in his \u201cpersonal capacity\u201d at a pro-Gallrein rally. 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