Another Scalp for Trump?

 

     The primary results from KY-4 are in and Ed Gallrein beat Thomas Massie by about 10 points or just over 10,000 votes. The lazy, reactionary mainstream media, of course, is quick to assume this proves Trump's ongoing dominance over Republican voters, especially after five targeted Republicans in Indiana lost their primaries and Sen. Bill Cassidy lost his Senate primary in Louisiana.

     In fact, far from strongman Trump still exerting a stranglehold over the GOP, other indications show it's actually slipping and that it's just a coincidence that the politicians Trump is targeting in his ongoing jihad over disloyal Republicans are just a coincidence. Don't forget, the New York Times recently released the results of a poll that showed Trump's favorability rating is at an alltime low of 38%. That seems to show that if Trump could run for a third term this November, he'd lose to a flour sack with Barack Obama's or even Kamala Harris' face scrawled on it.

     It could be that the voters in these states and districts were simply sick and tired of these politicians and want a change. Maybe the reason why Bill Cassidy came in last in a three Republican primary is simply because the voters didn't want him in the Senate anymore. Does anyone seriously think that if Trump had endorsed him that he would've automatically won his primary?

     So Gallrein won tonight and in decisive fashion. Trump cynically endorsed him because he was the major Republican front runner opposing Massie in KY-4. But one must factor in that this was the most expensive House primary race in history, with $25.6 million being spent, mostly from outside groups that couldn't forgive Massie for his polemics against Trump and Israel.

     Massie is virtually the only Republican in Congress who's been unceasing in his criticism of Israel and its ongoing genocide in Gaza. Massie was also the Republican who partnered with Ro Khanna in drafting the discharge petition that led to Congress forcing the DoJ to release the Epstein files in their entirety (at least, it was supposed to).

     Trump saw him as a threat because Massie was ready to move heaven and earth to release those files that mentions Trump over 1,000,000 times, Trump knows he's a filthy pedophile who loves to fuck little girls and he was outraged that Massie would want to call him out on that.

     Massie, of course, could still run as an Independent like Lieberman or as a write-in like Lisa Murkowski after both senators lost their primaries.

     But Trump's supposed death grip on the GOP is only absolute in the Supreme Court that could've been  assembled by Hitler himself. He's still running into serious headwinds in the House and Senate regarding his proposed trillion and a half dollar defense budget or his ballroom that will also cost about a trillion and a half. He;s also getting some flak from Republicans who have been criticizing him and Hegseth over his losing war with Iran.

     So, yeah, it looks as Gallrein will represent that inbred district in KY-4 (Democrat Melissa Strange, in her primary, got barely over half the votes that Gallrein got). But just because a bleacher bum screams the loudest during a game, it doesn't mean he actually changes the game's outcome.