Posted on 10/15/2025 11:08:24 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has made good on his promise to ensure President Trump’s threats to unseat him will “backfire” as his campaign fundraising numbers reach personal record heights.
Massie has touted more than $2 million in cash on hand for his reelection bid after managing to pull in nearly $768,000 in contributions from July to September, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. That three-month sum is reportedly a record for Massie’s political career.
The Kentucky Republican has bucked the Trump administration on numerous occasions, warranting recognition as a firebrand for White House critics.
Massie voted against the administration’s summer spending bill that wiped out Medicaid funds for states and has pushed for the Justice Department to release files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Amid an uptick in politically motivated shootings, Massie urged Trump to cool down his rhetoric surrounding party divisions in the wake of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
More recently he also diverted from the Republican Party in voting against the House-passed stopgap bill intended to keep the government open.
“Thomas Massie, the worst Republican Congressman, and an almost guaranteed NO VOTE each and every time, is an Embarrassment to Kentucky,” Trump wrote in one post on Truth Social in July. “He’s lazy, slow moving, and totally disingenuous — A real loser!”
Twitter has his back..
Are you a Democrat shill.
I am looking forward to him going.
He needs to get a lot of money, because he’s not looking good.
So do the Democrats. Duh.
He should drop the M and just call himself Assie.
That rat money is pouring in
Tom Massie is raising donations and burning bridges with near equal force. That usually ends up with a Mister Bought & Paid For politician deciding to switch parties, or go ALL IN with the resistance. Think George (Kellyanne) Conway and other loyal members of The Turtle’s RINO Army.
Which Twitter?
The Democrats?
Did Massie really ask Trump to cool down the language after the Charlie Kirk shooting ? I don’t remember that at all but if it’s true that’s the most pathetic thing I’ve ever heard
That’s the best case scenario.
Massie the Assie just another Republican diva. I wonder how much of those Donations came from the Soros clan?
Yes he is.
” I don’t remember that at all “
Me neither, but who knows?
H.R. 1044: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2019/h437
Massie voted for h1-bs. Give him hell, Kentuckians!
The reports are due today so not all of them have filed. The Green Pages show 3 dems and 4 reps for Kentucky House Distrct 4. FEV.gov only shows six candidates, but the seventh has filed but does not show up on the distrct 4 page.
Only Massie and a Dem oppoent show money reports for 6/30/2025. The Dem had raised a whopping $9,189.56 during the two months she was in the race.
America First for the win!
“Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie, of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, a phenomenal State that I won all three times (by a lot!), keeps talking about how he is going to protect the Constitution, but he is actually very bad for the Constitution.”
“Why would anyone want to vote for a so-called ‘Congressman,’ a RINO, at best, who wants to raise your Taxes by 68 [percent]”
“He votes, ‘NO!’ on everything, because he thinks it makes him cool, but he’s not cool, he’s a LOSER!”
“MAGA should drop this pathetic LOSER, Tom Massie, like the plague! . . .The good news is that we will have a wonderful American Patriot running against him in the Republican Primary, and I’ll be out in Kentucky campaigning really hard.”
“He’s lazy, slow moving, and totally disingenuous - A real loser! Never has anything positive to add”
“MAGA is not about lazy, grandstanding, nonproductive politicians, of which Thomas Massie is definitely one,”
“worst Republican Congressman” who’s an “Embarrassment to Kentucky.”
-— Donald Trump describing Thomas Massie.
His receipts and cash on hand does not even put him into the top 50 of congressional fundraising.
https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/congressional-candidate-data-summary-tables/
On a separate note, there are already 951 people who have filed to run for Congress in 2026, an increase of 155 over this time last cycle. They have raised about $80 million more this cycle.
But they have $24 million in debt. As congressional leaders are want to do. Apparently debt has become a common campaign vehicle as last cycle was doulbe the previous cycle.
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