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●KY-04: Donald Trump used Friday morning to issue a pair of tweets heaping vitriol against Rep. Thomas Massie for delaying the $2 trillion coronavirus economic bill that concluded with a call to "WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!" Massie faces a June primary challenge against attorney Todd McMurtry in his safely red northern Kentucky seat, and the incumbent may have just opened the door to a world of pain by inflaming Trump, who used another tweet to accuse him of aiding "Radical Left Democrats."
Massie, a libertarian-leaning ultraconservative who once called himself too "crazy" to belong to the far-right House Freedom Caucus, has spent his nearly eight years in Congress pissing off the House GOP leadership and voting against major legislation from the right. At least until a few days ago, though, Massie still was working to appeal to the Trump White House in order to win renomination. In February Massie even ran TV ads on Fox in South Florida, which just happens to be the location of Trump's Mar-a-Lago lair, that castigated McMurtry as a "Trump hater." Massie hoped that Trump would see these commercials and endorse him, but that never happened.