Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie struck a defiant tone as he conceded defeat to MAGA challenger Ed Gallrein in their primary election Tuesday, telling his supporters: “We didn’t bend the knee.”
Massie is one of the few conservatives in Congress to have regularly stood up to Donald Trump, opposing his “One Big, Beautiful Bill” and the war in Iran and campaigning for the release of the government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein, earning the president’s lasting enmity.