{"id":2450713,"date":"2025-06-23T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-aligned-advisers-launch-maga-pac-in-kentucky-to-unseat-thomas-massie\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:58:01","slug":"trump-aligned-advisers-launch-maga-pac-in-kentucky-to-unseat-thomas-massie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-aligned-advisers-launch-maga-pac-in-kentucky-to-unseat-thomas-massie\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-aligned advisers launch MAGA PAC in Kentucky to unseat Thomas Massie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-aligned-advisers-launch-maga-pac-in-kentucky-to-unseat-thomas-massie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2450713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Trump-aligned political advisers have established a political Action Committee (PAC) in Kentucky aimed at challenging incumbent Republican Congressman Thomas Massie. This marks Trump&#8217;s first attempt to unseat a Republican representative. Massie has garnered criticism for his votes that diverge from party lines, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >including opposing significant legislation<\/a> and expressing skepticism about the threat posed by Iran. A recent poll indicated that a majority of Kentucky voters would support a Trump-backed candidate over Massie. <\/p>\n<p>In response to ongoing tensions, including Trump&#8217;s military actions against Iran, Massie emphasized the importance of congressional debate before military intervention.Trump publicly rebuked Massie, labeling him as a &#8220;grandstander&#8221; and asserting his opposition to Trump&#8217;s policies. Trump&#8217;s advisers further predicted that Massie&#8217;s term in Congress may be nearing its end.In light of this criticism, Massie has maintained a humorous approach, joking in a social media post about Trump&#8217;s declared opposition to him.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump-aligned advisers launch MAGA PAC in Kentucky to unseat Thomas Massie: Report<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2151975\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Trump-aligned political advisers have formed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marriott-att-airbnbheres-the-list-of-corporations-announcing-they-wont-donate-to-gop-lawmakers-who-objected-to-electoral-votes-from-contested-states\/\" title=\"Marriott, AT&amp;T, Airbnb\u2026Here\u2019s The List Of Corporations Announcing They Won\u2019t Donate To GOP Lawmakers Who Objected To Electoral Votes From Contested States\">political action committee<\/a> in Kentucky to oust Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3450372\/trump-thomas-massie-rand-paul-jr-truth-social-iran-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Thomas Massie\">Thomas Massie<\/a> (R-KY), in President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s first effort to challenge a Republican incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>Massie has often bucked his party by voting against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last month and more recently sowing doubt that Iran was an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3450290\/thomas-massie-no-imminent-threat-iran-attack-trump-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"imminent threat\">imminent threat<\/a>&rdquo; before Trump chose to strike three of its nuclear sites. At the time, he was joined by Reps. Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Andy Harris (R-MD),&nbsp;with all three&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3419268\/five-house-republicans-vote-no-one-big-beautiful-bill-passage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"imminent threat\">citing their concerns&nbsp;<\/a>over the nation&rsquo;s deficit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3449259\/battle-among-social-media-influencers-gop-politicians\/\">Battle among social media influencers getting under the skin of some politicians &nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3448919\/democrat-jim-himes-praises-trump-two-week-deadline-iran-strikes\/\">Democrat Jim Himes given &#8216;comfort&#8217; by Trump&#8217;s two-week deadline on Iran strikes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3277486\/members-leaving-congress\/\">Congressional short-timers: These lawmakers are on the way out<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Kentucky MAGA <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">had not filed with the Federal Election Commission as of Monday morning. However, Tony Fabrizio and Chris LaCivita confirmed to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/06\/22\/trump-massie-congress-2026\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;that they will be running the PAC with the goal of putting<\/span> forth a primary challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio recently conducted a poll in Kentucky, which was obtained by the outlet, that reported 52% would support a Trump-backed candidate, while 23% support Massie. The poll showed that 87% approved of Trump, while 52% approved of Massie.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Fabrizio and LaCivita for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Massie spoke out about Trump&rsquo;s decision to strike Iran Saturday night, when the House was on recess. The Kentucky representative expressed his desire that his joint resolution with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) had been debated and voted on before the decision was made. This resolution mirrors that of Sen. Tim Kaine&rsquo;s (D-VA), whose own&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaine.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/iran_war_powers_resolution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resolution<\/a>&nbsp;requires congressional debate and a vote before the U.S. takes any offensive measures against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>These recent efforts by Massie prompted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3450372\/trump-thomas-massie-rand-paul-jr-truth-social-iran-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">rebuke from Trump.<\/a> In a post to Truth Social, Trump promised that &ldquo;we will have a wonderful American Patriot running against him in the Republican Primary, and I&rsquo;ll be out in Kentucky campaigning really hard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is not MAGA, even though he likes to say he is,&rdquo; Trump wrote on Sunday. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a simple minded &lsquo;grandstander&rsquo; who thinks it&rsquo;s good politics for Iran to have the highest level Nuclear weapon, while at the same time yelling &lsquo;DEATH TO AMERICA&rsquo; at every chance they get. Iran has killed and maimed thousands of Americans, and even took over the American Embassy in Tehran under the Carter Administration. We had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lankford-lauds-trumps-decision-to-prevent-attack-against-america\/\" title=\"Lankford lauds ...s decision to &#039;prevent&#039; attack against America\">spectacular military success yesterday<\/a>, taking the &lsquo;bomb&rsquo; right out of their hands (and they would use it if they could!) but, as usual, and despite all of the praise and accolades received, this &lsquo;lightweight&rsquo; Congressman is against what was so brilliantly achieved last night in Iran.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump adviser James Blair piped into the spat, predicting that Massie is serving &ldquo;his last term in Congress.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[I don&rsquo;t care] if Thomas Massie opposes some things, including last night&rsquo;s action. But he doesn&rsquo;t, he opposes everything,&rdquo; Blair wrote on X Sunday. &ldquo;Never engages constructively. Never has solutions. Just attacks our President on TV &amp; begs for money on X. Same as a Democrat. Doesn&rsquo;t know what time it is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Idc if Thomas Massie opposes some things, including last night&rsquo;s action. <\/p>\n<p>But he doesn&rsquo;t, he opposes everything.<\/p>\n<p>Never engages constructively.  <\/p>\n<p>Never has solutions. <\/p>\n<p>Just attacks our President on TV &amp; begs for money on X.<\/p>\n<p>Same as a Democrat. <\/p>\n<p>Doesn&rsquo;t know what time it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ixa6MAdqrA\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ixa6MAdqrA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Blair (@JamesBlairUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesBlairUSA\/status\/1936944950383407255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3450374\/lankford-lauds-trumps-decision-to-prevent-attack-against-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>LANKFORD LAUDS TRUMP&rsquo;S DECISION TO &lsquo;PREVENT&rsquo; ATTACK AGAINST AMERICA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LaCivita responded to Blair&rsquo;s post with the comment, &ldquo;oh he knows what time it is &hellip;it&rsquo;s Times Up!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Massie has responded to the online spat with a joke posted to X. The representative shared a screenshot of Trump&rsquo;s post with the caption, &ldquo;@realDonaldTrump declared so much War on me today it should require an Act of Congress. #sassywithmassie.&rdquo; His campaign account also shared the post in an  effort to rally more support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2151975\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2151975\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump allies create PAC in Kentucky to challenge Rep. 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