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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | As you all know, because you just maybe you're watching, maybe you've been clicking on blue sky or wherever you're looking, it is a big election night in six states where voters cast their ballots in a bunch, a bunch of key primary races. We're following all of them. |
| 0:14.7 | Polls have now closed in most of those states. Results are coming in. They've been coming in. They're going to keep coming in. We're going to keep bringing you updates. And there are a lot of important races that we're following tonight. I'm going to go through a bunch of them here so you know what we're tracking. And Georgia, three Republicans have been locked in a bitter primary battle to see who will run against incumbent Senator John Ossov. And remember, John Ossov, he is one of the most, if not the most |
| 0:41.1 | heavily targeted Democratic incumbents on the ballot this year. And we're going to learn at least |
| 0:46.6 | more tonight about who he may face in November. We're also following the results from both the |
| 0:52.1 | Democratic and Republican primaries in Georgia's crucial race for governor. |
| 0:56.7 | Also in Georgia, we're getting results from the two hotly contested races for seats on the state's Supreme Court. |
| 1:02.2 | After two liberal-backed candidates received very big endorsements from former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris. |
| 1:10.8 | But the most closely watched race tonight was probably the Republican primary for Kentucky's |
| 1:15.9 | fourth congressional district, where Donald Trump and his billionaire allies waged a |
| 1:21.7 | quite a retribution campaign to unseat conservative incumbent congressman Thomas Massey. |
| 1:28.4 | And tonight the Associated Press projects that Trump-backed challenger Ed Galeraine has defeated |
| 1:32.9 | Thomas Massey in that primary. Nearly $33 million, I should note, was spent in that race, |
| 1:39.1 | making it the most expensive congressional primary race in history. Donald Trump was so determined to |
| 1:46.5 | oust Massey. He personally attacked him multiple times on true social, just in the last few days |
| 1:51.4 | at events, and on X, calling him things like the worst congressman and a rhino and urging voters |
| 1:59.2 | repeatedly to replace him. |
| 2:01.8 | He even dispatched his Secretary of Defense, Pete Higset, to campaign for Massey's opponent, |
| 2:07.4 | of course, while the country is in the middle of a war. |
| 2:12.3 | The point is this, it's clear that Trump really, really, really wanted Thomas Massey out of office. |
| 2:19.1 | And tonight after his backers spent millions and he had used his own bully pulpit over and |
| 2:23.4 | over again to attack Massey, he succeeded. So why did Trump spend so much energy to defeat |
| 2:30.1 | a conservative congressman in this Republican primary? Well, I think Thomas Massey actually said it best himself. |
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