{"id":49587,"date":"2026-05-20T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49587"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:14:58","slug":"trump-backed-challenger-defeats-massie-in-kentucky-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49587","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Backed Challenger Defeats Massie in Kentucky Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Trump-Backed Challenger Defeats Massie in Kentucky Primary<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Trump-Backed Challenger Defeats Massie in Kentucky Primary<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Representative Thomas Massie, a vocal critic of President Trump, lost his re-election bid on Tuesday. The race was a closely watched test of the president\u2019s power to eliminate Republican rivals.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI have called and conceded the race. I mean, we stirred up something. There is a yearning in this country for somebody who will vote for principles over party.\u201d \u201cI want to thank President Trump for his support.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Representative Thomas Massie, a vocal critic of President Trump, lost his re-election bid on Tuesday. The race was a closely watched test of the president\u2019s power to eliminate Republican rivals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Julie Yoon<\/p>\n<p>May 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Trump-Backed Challenger Defeats Massie in Kentucky Primary transcript Back transcript Trump-Backed Challenger Defeats Massie in Kentucky Primary Representative Thomas Massie, a vocal critic of President Trump, lost his re-election bid on Tuesday. The race was a closely watched test of the president\u2019s power to eliminate Republican rivals. \u201cI have called and conceded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[6727,11760,4451,24562,6711,21050],"class_list":{"0":"post-49587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-challenger","9":"tag-defeats","10":"tag-kentucky","11":"tag-massie","12":"tag-primary","13":"tag-trumpbacked"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}