Trump-Backed Challengers in Election Just Changed Republican Party
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Trump-backed candidate Ed Gallrein took incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie’s place in Kentucky. The primary race was just one of many, where Trump pushed campaigns of challengers on other key positions, and is changing the face of the Republican party ahead of the midterm elections.
We’ll discuss this topic and others in this episode of “Crossroads.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Crossroads. Are we seeing the rise of Trump's new Republicans? Well, look, the primaries, |
| 0:07.4 | Tuesday night, they turn to be a big indicator of what's to come, the future of the Republican Party. |
| 0:13.2 | Because everyone's wondering, you know, what does post-Trump republicanism look like? Basically, |
| 0:18.1 | candidates that Trump endorsed won most of the races, include notably like Kentucky, |
| 0:23.8 | where Trump backed Ed Gallowin, beat incumbent Thomas Massey. |
| 0:27.6 | That was a big one. |
| 0:29.1 | Who was, of course, a critic of Trump? |
| 0:30.8 | And look, speaking of elections, a woman in California has now been federally charged for paying people to register to vote. |
| 0:39.9 | She's been doing it for like decades, apparently. |
| 0:42.7 | We showed some of the undercover videos showing some of this. |
| 0:45.4 | I'll give more details, but she was even paying homeless people, apparently. |
| 0:49.5 | Also, on another topic, Chinese shipping companies are under investigation for allegedly coordinating a global |
| 0:55.2 | shipping crisis ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic, lending more evidence that China may have intentionally |
| 1:02.0 | spread this and used it as an economic weapon. And speaking of problems in international shipment, |
| 1:07.2 | well, guess what? The world is not facing a food crisis. Because of the lockdown |
| 1:12.2 | to the Strait of Hormuz. We'll be talking about these topics and a lot more today. So make |
| 1:17.0 | sure to hit the like button, leave a comment. Let's get started. Well, look what's going on. |
| 1:22.9 | Thomas Massey is out. That was the big campaign. Trump was hyper focused on it. It was in all the headlines. |
| 1:31.1 | And Massey lost the house run, at least the, you know, primaries in Kentucky to Trump-backed Ed Gowlerin. |
| 1:38.3 | And it didn't end there either. It was actually across the board. |
| 1:41.6 | Trump-backed candidates swept in other key positions. And look, this is a big |
| 1:46.8 | deal because this is setting the stage on who the candidates are going to be for the midterm elections. |
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