As NBC’s Jon Allen put it recently, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s primary in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District is a test of whether voters are more loyal to Trumpism than they are to Trump.
If Massie, the 14-year incumbent, wins over Ed Gallrein, a Trump-endorsed Navy SEAL, it’s not because he torched the president. You’d struggle to find one instance when Massie openly and directly criticized the president. (Believe me: I tried.)
If you saw his primary campaign ads, he branded his Trump-endorsed opponent, Ed Gallrein, as “Woke Eddie Gallrein.” He flooded the airwaves with messages that “you can’t spell Eddie without D-E-I.” Massie spammed voters with a picture of himself standing next to Trump, with both men grinning and doing the president’s patented thumbs-up pose. And he painted Gallrein as the actual anti-Trump candidate, playing up how his main opponent switched his party affiliation from Republican to independent after Trump won the presidential primary in 2016.
Whatever the lesson of Massie’s primary — whether he wins or loses — I don’t think it’s that voters are repudiating Trump. At least not directly. The lesson of Massie’s primary — the parable of Thomas Massie — won’t hinge on the results.
This is a preview of Matt Fuller’s latest article. Read the full article here.
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