00:15Bill Cassidy just got obliterated in Louisiana, finished third, didn't even make the runoff.
00:22Trump wanted revenge, and he got it.
00:24So, you'd think Thomas Massey, who's next on Trump's hit list, would be sweating right now.
00:31He's not.
00:32Here's the situation.
00:33Thomas Massey has represented Kentucky in the House since 2012.
00:37He's a libertarian-leaning Republican who has repeatedly broken with Trump on spending,
00:42on foreign policy, on the big, beautiful bill.
00:45Trump hates it.
00:47He called Massey this Sunday morning, the worst Republican congressman in history.
00:52He told Kentucky to vote the bum out.
00:54And he's putting serious money behind those words.
00:58His endorsed candidate, Ed Galrain, is sitting at the center of what's already being called
01:03the most expensive House primary in American history.
01:06Big money, big endorsement, big momentum, fresh off Louisiana.
01:11So, Massey shows up on ABC's This Week Sunday morning, and George Stephanopoulos is basically
01:17waiting for him to flinch.
01:19He doesn't.
01:20Instead, Massey looks at the camera and says,
01:23You can tell I'm ahead in the polls, and they're desperate.
01:25And then, he does something interesting.
01:28He flips the spending narrative entirely.
01:30All this outside money flooding into Kentucky to beat him, Miriam Adelson's millions going
01:36to his opponent, Massey says that's why Trump's allies now need taxpayer money to fund the
01:42new White House ballroom, because their donors spent it all trying to take him out.
01:47That's a sharp line.
01:48Whether you agree with Massey or not, that's a sharp line.
01:52And here's what Massey is betting his survival on.
01:55Not PAC money.
01:56Not a presidential endorsement.
01:58Grassroots donors.
02:00He says millions of dollars have poured into ThomasMassey.com.
02:04Tens of thousands of individual donors.
02:07Small-dollar, bottom-up funding.
02:09The same kind of energy Trump rode in 2016, now being used against Trump's machine.
02:14It's a fascinating inversion.
02:17Tuesday's Kentucky primary isn't just about one congressman.
02:20It's a test of something much bigger.
02:22Can Trump's endorsement machine, fresh off scalping Cassidy, take out a genuinely popular
02:28incumbent in his own backyard?
02:30Or does Massey's independence actually play in Kentucky, even with a sitting president calling
02:36him a bum on social media?
02:38The vote is Tuesday, and Thomas Massey, right now, is acting like a man who's already won.
02:44We'll find out if he's right.
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