Kentucky congressional candidate Ed Gallrein discusses the Kentucky House primary and his opponent, Rep. Thomas Massie, on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

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Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Republican House primary Tuesday in another test of President Donald Trump’s power over his party after he handpicked challenger and ultimate winner Ed Gallrein to oust the incumbent.

The first votes are coming in for the high-stakes battle in Kentucky between GOP Rep. Thomas Massie and Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in the 4th District. Follow for live news updates on primary battles in several states.

Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and it turns out Ed Gallrein was the man for the job. Gallrein, the former Navy SEAL Trump recruited to run against Massie, is the projected winner of the Republican primary for the fourth district of Kentucky.

Thomas Massie stayed true to his small-government principles. Republican voters in Kentucky chose President Trump instead.

There aren’t many lawmakers like Thomas Massie left in Congress. The renegade Republican who rose to prominence as an idiosyncratic and stubborn outlier in his party, popular in the Kentucky district that repeatedly sent him to the House,

Ed ⁠Gallrein, boosted ⁠by the backing of ​U.S. President Donald ‌Trump, ousted incumbent ‌Rep. Thomas ⁠Massie, ⁠a prominent Trump critic, on Tuesday ​to become the Republican Party's nominee ​to represent Kentucky's 4th ⁠congressional district ⁠in the ⁠U.