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Trump news at a glance: president forces out another Republican who crossed him

Rep. Thomas Massie raises his fist while speaking at a podium, with American flags in the background
Thomas Massie speaks after losing the Republican party's nomination during an election night watch party on 19 May 2026. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Donald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the maverick congressman Thomas Massie in favour of the US president’s hand-picked challenger.

Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy Seal and farmer who was recruited into the race by Trump, defeated the seven-term incumbent in a primary election in Kentucky’s fourth congressional district, in what the president’s allies framed as a test of whether dissent could still exist inside today’s Republican party.

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