New Poll Reveals Trump-Endorsed Candidate Leads Massie

Viewing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) as out of step with the MAGA agenda, President Donald Trump has backed the Kentucky MAGA PAC, which plans to oppose Massie in the primary. The PAC, led by Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio, has vowed to spend whatever it takes to unseat Massie. A John McLaughlin poll shows 52% support a Trump-endorsed candidate versus 23% for Massie.

>>”Ridiculous. F off Trump. This is why we cant have nice things. Like oh idk discourse and differences of opinion and interpretation.”

Ridiculous. This is exactly why we’re able to have nice things we never would have had with the pre-Trump Massie/Romney RINOs in charge - things like a closed border, mass deportation of illegals, industry and manufacturing returning to America, fair trade with other countries rather than uniformly getting fleeced by the rest of the world, increased revenue flowing into the Treasury from tariffs paid by foreign nations, removing transgender insanity and DEI from our government, returning to meritocracy in the military, rebuilding our military, removing Iran’s nuclear capability, building a peace coalition between Arab states and Israel, confronting China’s hegemony. All nice things. And all of them thanks to Trump. And most of them in spite of Massie.

And you’re offering “discourse and differences of opinion” as an example of “nice things we can’t have”? Who’s stopping discourse and differences of opinion? All I see is a President expressing his own opinion, making his case to the public and supporting candidates he agrees with (which is his right as an American) and doing a good job at gaining consensus because he’s a good communicator and his ideas are superior to Massie’s.

The truth is, we would have none of the nice things I mentioned in the previous paragraph if the Massie’s of the world had their way. Their “principles” and “differences of opinion” are designed for one purpose - maintaining the old order so that he and politicians like him can thrive while ensuring that the nation does without all the nice things previously cataloged.

>>”Trump needs to focus on not losing the House in 2026. Primarying Republicans in safe seats over petty grievances is not the way to do it.”

With redistricting, the chances of losing the House in 2026 are slim. Selectively targeting legislators like Massie is how Trump got the rest of the caucus to support him. Think back to Jeff Flake, etc. I’ve forgotten the names of most of those losers, but targeting them put the fear of god in the rest of the the caucus. It’s the reason Trump is now able to pressure someone like Chip Roy to get in line.

Allowing someone who has made it his mission to flagrantly challenge Trump’s leadership of the party to get away with doing so sends a message to other RINO fence sitters that’s it’s safe for them to do so as well. If you don’t get rid of Massie you’ll soon see a dozen little Massies start popping up.

Flake was anti-Trump before Trump ever even took office. He called on Trump to drop out of the race after the Access Hollywood tape. During the two years Trump was in office prior to retiring, Flake vociferously denounced Trump at every opportunity.

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

In October 2017, upon announcing that he would not seek re-election in 2018, Flake delivered a speech on the Senate floor where he denounced the Trump Administration.[34] Flake’s speech, which was described by McKay Coppins as a “thundering indictment of his party, his president, and his country’s political culture,” was called “the most important speech of 2017” by Chris Cillizza.[35][36]

In May 2018, Flake said that Trump had “debased” the presidency, that he had a “seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division,” and that he possessed “only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works.”[71] Flake vowed to hold up some of Trump’s judicial nominees for lower courts positions until he obtained a non-binding vote in the Senate expressing opposition to Trump’s tariffs.[72] He was one of two Republicans to vote against the confirmation of Trump’s nominee to be CIA Director, Gina Haspel.[73] Flake also refused to push Trump to take a firmer stance on Russia.[74][72][75] In November 2018, Flake announced that he would once again vote to hold up Trump’s nominees to the judiciary until the Senate voted on a bill to protect the independence of Robert Mueller’s FBI investigation.[76][77] Flake was one of two Republicans to oppose the nomination of Thomas Farr to the federal judiciary; his opposition was crucial to the derailing of Trump’s nominee.[78] However, according to FiveThirtyEight, Flake had voted with Trump’s position on legislative issues 84% [not 92%] of the time as of December 2018.[79]

Flake opposed Trump on key issues, regardless of the 84% figure (not 92%). And with regard to the 84% figure, that doesn’t tell the whole story. One would have to look at how key his votes were in those instances where he voted with Trump to get the fuller picture.

Regardless, the message was still the same. Try to derail Trump’s agenda and you will pay a price. And Trump made good on that message, regardless of who ended up replacing Flake. Flake chose to retire after Trump singled him out, knowing his chances of re-election were next to zero.

Ending Flake’s career along with the careers of about a dozen other anti-Trump RINOs (most of whom were replaced by MAGA Republicans) sent a strong message. And what has been the result? We have a much more MAGA-centric GOP caucus, so much so that they were able to pass Trump’s reconciliation bill with the barest of House majorities. That kind of discipline goes away if someone like Massie is allowed to openly flaunt his disdain for Trump without paying a political price.

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