Massie Is OUT | Paxton Gets the Nod | Senate GOP, You Don't Get to Cry | 5/20/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Thomas Massie, Ken Paxton, Karoline Leavitt, Canada's euthanasia laws, and Marco Rubio headline today's A.M. Update. Trump scores another primary scalp as Ed Gallrein defeats Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky's 4th district — the most expensive House primary on record — while Trump simultaneously endorses Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in next week's Texas Senate runoff, leaving Senate Majority Leader John Thune visibly rattled. JD Vance steps in for Karoline Leavitt at the White House briefing and defends Trump's "I don't think about Americans' finances" comment for over an hour, and the NAACP calls for a student athlete boycott of Southern state universities over redistricting. A resurfaced comment from a Quebec College of Physicians member proposing euthanasia for disabled infants up to one year old prompts Aaron's broader warning about Canada's medically assisted dying laws and the slippery slope from allowance to coercion. Aaron closes with Marco Rubio's Rededicate 250 address tracing America's Christian foundation from the Puritans to the moon landing, and a sharp response to various voices crying about an ungovernable Senate: all you had to do was pass the SAVE Act.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 20th, 2026. So long, Tom, meet your new White House spokesperson, and no Senate GOP, you don't get to cry now. |
| 0:08.2 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:13.1 | President Trump and his political operation have made it one of their main directives in 2026 to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky's |
| 0:24.4 | fourth congressional district. It seems like they have done just that. They have done just that, |
| 0:29.3 | as Massey lost his primary last night to Ed Galerine. And what was going into this, looking at the prediction markets, that's not exactly a surprise. |
| 0:41.2 | What is a surprise, though, is now twice in the last week. |
| 0:44.6 | We have now had members of Congress, two sitting incumbent members of Congress losing their seats. |
| 0:51.3 | Congressman Thomas Massey has a wonderful voting record for the most part, but one vote |
| 0:56.1 | in particular, which I think finally set us off down this road, is what he did with the |
| 1:02.3 | big, beautiful bill in voting against border security. He had some weird minutia complaint |
| 1:09.6 | about that bill. |
| 1:14.8 | He did not vote for it, and that's why we are where we now are. |
| 1:16.6 | We're with Ed Galerine. |
| 1:23.3 | He is a veteran, and he was endorsed by Trump taking out an incumbent in Congressman Thomas Massey. |
| 1:27.1 | So, yes, that's why we're talking about some random district in Kentucky. |
| 1:28.5 | It's not just any random district. |
| 1:48.6 | It's one that President Trump, in terms of trying to unseat an incumbent to Thorn in his side, that would be Thomas Massey, one that he is given a lot of intention to just yesterday using his ex account, his official ex account, using the occasion of getting in front of the press to once again hit Thomas Massey, who has now been unseated. |
| 1:53.7 | So so long, Thomas Massey from national politics, it seems like for now anyway. |
| 2:04.8 | Also making moves yesterday, President Trump endorsing a week before the Texas runoff for Senate, endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. |
| 2:09.3 | Now, Paxton was the one who, after the original primary a couple of months ago, |
| 2:14.4 | it was rumored that President Trump was going to be endorsing incumbent Senator John Cornyn. That's when Ken Paxton sent out that press release saying, hey, |
| 2:18.8 | I'm all for President Trump's agenda. I'm all for the Save America Act or the Save Act, |
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