Israel Lobby Ousts Thomas Massie From Congress in Most Expensive Primary Race in History

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
May. 20, 2026

The Israel Lobby, working in tandem with President Trump, on Tuesday night succeeded in unseating Rep. Thomas Massie after dropping at least $15.5 million on the primary race for Kentucky's 4th district.

Some $19 million in ads were run against Massie, according to the NY Times.

Rep. Thomas Massie has been unseated by AIPAC’s Ed Gallrein in what is now the most expensive House primary in U.S. history. #KY04 https://t.co/CI2C8xuVql pic.twitter.com/M0HxFlJhz5
— AIPAC Tracker (@TrackAIPAC) May 19, 2026

Massie: I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv pic.twitter.com/DmTkDfS17a
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2026

How do his boots taste?
— Thomas Massie for Congress (@MassieforKY) May 20, 2026

Massie got 15 percent higher turnout this election, but the Lobby's hand-picked puppet, Ed Gallrein, soundly defeated him after older voters showed up in force.

Polls released ahead of the election showed a dramatic generational divide, with everyone under age 56 swinging hard for Massie and those over 56 swinging hard for Gallrein.

KY-04 GOP Primary: Results by Age Group

🟣 Age 17-25: Massie +25
🟣 Age 26-35: Massie +56
🟣 Age 36-45: Massie +38
🟣 Age 46-55: Massie +17
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🔴 Age 56-65: Gallrein +18
🔴 Age 66-75: Gallrein +35
🔴 Age 76+: Gallrein +33@QuantusInsights | 5/11-12 | 908 LV https://t.co/H7juBRgxXr pic.twitter.com/pjcRguiF4a
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) May 13, 2026

Gallrein followed in Biden's footsteps by hiding in his basement throughout the primary and letting the Israel Lobby's millions do his campaigning for him.

Ed Gallrein: "I look forward to sending Ed Gallrein to Congress..." https://t.co/3KuooOVfdn pic.twitter.com/eS376XiuuX
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) May 18, 2026

"Special Ed" Gallrein came out of hiding for a rare interview on Monday night and made a fool of himself.

He struggled to speak, couldn't answer a single question directly and rambled worse than Joe Biden.

Kentucky may go from having the smartest man in Congress to the dumbest. pic.twitter.com/dRsuXwL5IX
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) May 19, 2026

Fox News also helped prop up Gallrein's campaign by banning Massie from their airwaves for some 14 months and promoting Gallrein with carefully crafted, deceptive propaganda.

Fox News' Bill Hemmer, in a carefully crafted lie by omission, portrays Ed Gallrein as the fundraising underdog facing off against Rep. Thomas Massie.

"[Massie's] raised twice as much as you have," he tells Gallrein.

He then puts up a deceptive graphic that's clearly aimed at… pic.twitter.com/Luck3wmYIZ
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) May 19, 2026

Massie: By the way, after 18 months of a blackout of not letting me on Fox, they finally let me on four hours into the election. [Booing] Hey, their slop is a selling, so they will keep selling it. pic.twitter.com/IkQ8vFY5Oq
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2026

Massie: I got to watch Fox also for the first time in 18 months. And there was the president talking about, while gas is almost five dollars, and diesel is almost six dollars, they are talking about a big ballroom they will build, and it looks like the Roman empire. I see a few… pic.twitter.com/nJBd8Vmd9I
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2026

Despite this stinging defeat, it's baked in the cake due to demographic shifts that the Israel Lobby's power is on the way out.

Massie: Why am I hopeful right now? We have the younger demographic. You are patriots and you will inherit the country. You will make it better and I am hopeful because of it. We started out as an election and it turned into a movement. There is a yearning in this country for… pic.twitter.com/wtVF3zx5ov
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2026

This MIGA crap might work in Kentucky's 4th district, but it's not working nationally.

JUST IN: Presumptive Democratic candidate Graham Platner has a 71% chance of winning the Maine Senate election

If he wins, this would be a 🟥➡️🟦 flip, with Susan Collins currently holding the seat pic.twitter.com/3a0YoeVcUY
— Kalshi Politics (@KalshiPolitics) May 13, 2026

💢 Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner on U.S. support for Israel:

“Not a single taxpayer dollar should be spent on arming and defending a country that commits a genocide.

I would absolutely support Senator Sanders' bill to restrict military aid, but I'll be entirely honest,… pic.twitter.com/EVBYqF3py4
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) April 5, 2026

We have Massie to thank for much of that, as he did more than anyone in Congress over his 14 years in office to expose the power of the Israel Lobby.

Congressman Thomas Massie reveals to Tucker Carlson that his Republican colleagues have an “AIPAC babysitter” to ensure they vote in the interests of Israel at all times.

“It’s the only country that does this,” Massie adds.

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/zNOA35t32u
— AF Post (@AFpost) June 7, 2024

Has he seen the video of Trump talking about Miriam Adelson?
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 29, 2025

Allegedly, if you’re anti-war or anti-foreign aid, @SpeakerJohnson plans to screen you out of the Republican party. https://t.co/YJt3n95nPS
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 19, 2025

Trump's approval rating hit a record low of 34 percent recently in no small part because he has used all his political capital to serve Israel.

Reminder that Trump literally ran on handing our country over to Miriam Adelson and the Israel Lobby.

"You're gonna end up winning because you're going to have the president, okay?" he told Adelson at an event for wealthy Jewish donors in August 2024.pic.twitter.com/MyJ5F7Yxji https://t.co/wvVgwI3XWJ
— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) October 13, 2025

Massie can run again (hopefully for higher office) in two years and win.

Crowd: *chanting 2028*

Massie: What happens in 2028? You want me to run Congress again?

Crowd: Nooo *chants president* pic.twitter.com/T2lqmSYSn8
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2026

Massie has raised his national profile massively and still has time in Congress to give the Lobby hell.

Massie: Today is the six-month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture—that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress. pic.twitter.com/sm1nAOBVO6
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2026

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