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President Donald Trump’s handpicked challenger, retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, wasted no time delivering a brutal post-primary rebuke of outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie after toppling the longtime Kentucky congressman in one of the most expensive House primaries in U.S. history.
Massie lost to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in Tuesday’s primary election by a decisive margin.
During his concession speech, Massie said he was unable to call Gallrein because he was in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
“Listen, I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent and concede and it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.”
”I have called and conceded the race. We have been honorable the whole time and we are going to stay that way.”
“Welcome to the most expensive congressional primary ever, in the 250 year history of this country.”
”It is not just the most expensive, this thing went on longer than Vietnam.”
”It started nine months ago. They didn’t even have a candidate and they decided they wanted to take me out.”
In a fiery interview after his victory, Gallrein framed Massie as a politician who had turned his back not just on President Trump—but on the voters who sent him to Washington.
“Simply put, what we’d say in Kentucky because I’m pretty plain spoken, is he went to Washington, he burned every bridge, he burned a bridge factory and ran off everybody that would build a bridge to the conservative Republicans,” Gallrein said.
“Again, the left-wing Democrats, the radical Democrats loved him,” he continued. “His votes against our party and our nation go farther back.”
Gallrein then dropped a powerful reminder to every conservative Republican watching:
“Remember, it wasn’t just President Trump. President Trump won nearly 78 million votes in the presidential race. The most ever for a Republican president. He won 31 states, including the swing states and also 312 electoral votes. And here in this district, President Trump won by 85%. He stood against us! But he liked to single out President Trump.”
“All that to say it’s a new day, these people deserve better and I’m going to give it to them.”
WATCH:
Trump-backed Ed Gallrein just unloaded on Rep. Thomas Massie after his win.
He said Massie wasn’t voting against Trump — he was voting against the very people who elected him.
GALLREIN: “Simply put, what we’d say in Kentucky because I’m pretty plain spoken, is he went to… pic.twitter.com/CxdRjEg6qq
— Overton (@overton_news) May 20, 2026
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