Republican Congressmember Thomas Massie of Kentucky lost his primary race to a Trump-backed challenger, Ed Gallrein. Massie has repeatedly defied President Trump during his tenure. He opposed U.S. military actions against Iran, publicly criticizing Trump’s strikes as unconstitutional. He was also the co-author of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, along with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, forcing the Justice Department to release its files on the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a move that Trump fiercely opposed. On Tuesday, Gallrein won the Republican primary in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District with nearly 55% of the vote. Trump’s biggest donors backed Gallrein, and more than $32 million was spent on campaign ads in the Kentucky district, making it the most expensive House primary on record. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and other pro-Israel interest groups spent over $9 million to defeat Massie. This is Congressmember Massie in his concession speech Tuesday night.

Rep. Thomas Massie: “We don’t want — we’re tired of meddling overseas. We can’t afford it. Our empire will collapse if we keep sending our money to other countries. I never picked a fight with the country that’s tried to take me out here, because I’ve never — but I’ve never voted for foreign aid to any country. We got to take care of America first. America first!”

This comes as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger lost the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary. Raffensperger had defied President Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. In a call to Raffensperger in 2021, President Trump had urged him to “find 11,780 votes,” one more vote than Joe Biden’s margin of victory in 2020. On Tuesday, Raffensperger lost the gubernatorial primary to two pro-Trump candidates, Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones and Rick Jackson, a billionaire healthcare executive.

Meanwhile, DSA-backed candidate and progressive state Representative Chris Rabb won the Democratic primary to succeed retiring Democratic Congressmember Dwight Evans in Pennsylvania’s 3rd District. Rabb defeated Evans’s preferred successor, Ala Stanford, in the primary.