First Results as GOP’s Massie Fights to Survive Trump Attacks
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Out front next, the breaking news, the final polls just closing in the biggest test yet of Trump's revenge tour, the president aiming to take down Republican Tom Massey in Kentucky. |
| 0:18.2 | And the results are coming in this hour. |
| 0:20.4 | John King is here to break it all down. |
| 0:22.4 | Plus polls closing in Georgia this hour. Did the Republicans club their best chance of flipping |
| 0:28.6 | a Senate seat there? And a major endorsement tonight upending a crucial waste. It is a special |
| 0:34.3 | edition of Outfront, Election Night in America. Let's go Outfront. |
| 0:44.9 | And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett, and welcome to the special edition of Outfront, Election Night in America. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, there are six states altogether holding elections tonight with control of Congress ultimately at stake. |
| 0:57.6 | All right. So you can see them all lighting up on your map there. But let's start right now, all eyes on the biggest race of the night that's in Kentucky. |
| 1:01.9 | Final polls there are just closing. President Trump is determined to take out the Republican Thomas Massey there. Now, this has become the single most expensive primary race in history. |
| 1:07.2 | $33 million spent over the past few months. Now, just to be clear, this race should have |
| 1:12.2 | cost exactly zero dollars. Because Massey's a Republican, he votes overwhelmingly with Trump. |
| 1:16.8 | He's an incumbent, right? All of the reasons. But Trump turned on Massey after Massey fought |
| 1:21.8 | for the release of the Epstein files. That was the break. And now here we are, $33 million into |
| 1:26.8 | unseeding him. The first results from that crucial race are just starting to come in as polls are all closed. So we're bringing this to you as we get it. As you can see right now, these are just results coming in here all in. You can see right now you're just under 7,300 or 400 or so votes. So we're just starting to get early results right now. |
| 1:45.6 | Thomas Massey is down, but this is so early on, 6% reporting. |
| 1:49.1 | Can't read anything into it right now, but we'll see in these next few moments if we are |
| 1:52.4 | able to make a call as those numbers come in. |
| 1:54.7 | We're going to keep showing you these boards as we also follow crucial races in Georgia, |
| 1:58.9 | where polls have also just closed. |
| 2:00.7 | Georgia Republicans voting on a nominee who will take on the vulnerable Democratic Senator |
| 2:04.8 | John Ossoff this November. |
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