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President Donald Trump is taking his feud with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to the libertarian lawmaker’s house turf on Wednesday.
Trump is predicted to carry an occasion in Hebron, Kentucky, on Wednesday, the Republican Social gathering of Kentucky introduced on social media Monday. It is situated within the northern a part of the state’s 4th Congressional District, which Massie represents.
Massie’s major rival, Ed Gallrein, will attend the Hebron occasion, his marketing campaign confirmed to Fox Information Digital on Tuesday, whereas deferring all different questions on the matter to the White Home.
Massie himself will miss the occasion on account of a beforehand scheduled official engagement, his spokesperson advised Fox Information Digital.
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President Donald Trump shall be visiting Rep. Thomas Massie’s congressional district on Wednesday. (Win McNamee/Getty Photos; Nathan Posner/Anadolu by way of Getty Photos)
When requested in regards to the go to, White Home spokeswoman Liz Huston advised Fox Information Digital, “President Trump will go to the good states of Ohio and Kentucky on Wednesday to tout his financial victories and element his Administration’s aggressive, ongoing efforts to decrease costs and make America extra reasonably priced.”
The president has thrown his appreciable affect behind Gallrein to unseat Massie after the GOP lawmaker publicly defied Trump on a number of events.
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Massie most not too long ago was one in every of two Home Republicans to vote to cease Trump’s joint operation in Iran with Israel, although the laws was efficiently blocked by nearly all of GOP lawmakers and a handful of Democrats.
Ed Gallrein, left, seen with President Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace on the White Home. (Ed Gallrein congressional marketing campaign)
He was additionally one in every of two Republicans to vote in opposition to Trump’s “massive, stunning invoice” final 12 months.
Trump in flip has hurled a slew of non-public assaults in opposition to Massie, together with calling him “weak and pathetic” in a press release endorsing Gallrein in October.
“He solely votes in opposition to the Republican Social gathering, making life very simple for the Radical Left. Not like ‘light-weight’ Massie, a completely ineffective LOSER who has failed us so badly, CAPTAIN ED GALLREIN IS A WINNER WHO WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN,” Trump posted on Reality Social on the time, one in every of quite a few criticisms focusing on the Kentucky Republican by way of the years.
He known as Massie the “worst Republican congressman” in July amid Massie’s bipartisan push to power the Division of Justice (DOJ) to launch its information on Jeffrey Epstein.
Then-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, and Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, throughout a information convention exterior the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
However Massie has up to now appeared to defy political gravity regardless of making political enemies out of each Trump and Home GOP leaders.
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He handily defeated a number of major challengers in 2024 and 2022, regardless of public feuds with Trump, and has served his district since 2012.
Gallrein is a retired Navy SEAL and farmer who launched his marketing campaign days after Trump made his endorsement. Their major election day is Could 19.
