更新于：2026年3月11日 / 美国东部时间下午5:17 / CBS新闻
在总统特朗普呼吁击败肯塔基州共和党众议员托马斯·梅西（Thomas Massie）后，外部团体已斥资超过500万美元，试图在5月的初选中将其罢免。
截至目前，联邦竞选财务记录显示，在这场共和党议员面临亲特朗普挑战者埃德·加利恩（Ed Gallrein）的肯塔基州竞选中，反梅西势力在外部支出方面占据主导地位。加利恩的竞选网站称他是一名曾在美国海军服役的农民。支出披露文件显示，自2月底以来，一个超级政治行动委员会（Super PAC）已向此次竞选投入超过280万美元，而MAGA KY组织在本次选举周期中花费了约270万美元。
自2012年进入国会以来，持自由意志主义倾向的梅西在国会山采取了孤立的政治立场，包括投票反对为以色列的铁穹导弹防御系统拨款，这使他与本党成员产生分歧。他也是少数几个投票反对特朗普大规模支出和政策法案《一揽子美丽法案》（One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act）的众议院共和党人之一。去年，他对高调共和党议题的反对立场使他与特朗普发生冲突，而在他推动通过一项艰难的透明度法案，迫使司法部公布大量杰弗里·爱泼斯坦案相关记录后，这一冲突似乎进一步加剧。
不过，梅西在寻求连任的过程中也获得了一些外部支持，总额约为118万美元。但这一数字与试图帮助其对手的资金相比相形见绌。梅西代表的肯塔基州北部选区是共和党的稳固票仓，预计在大选中不会构成威胁。这并非梅西首次面临初选挑战，但考虑到当前的全国政治动态和总统的关注，这次被认为是他迄今为止最严峻的竞选。
梅西有可能成为又一位在初选中失利的共和党众议员。本月早些时候，在得克萨斯州，现任共和党众议员丹·克伦肖（Dan Crenshaw）在州议员史蒂夫·托特（Steve Toth）从右翼发起的挑战中败选。
克伦肖未能获得特朗普的支持，尽管总统并未公开反对这位现任议员。在托特获胜前一周左右，他获得了共和党参议员泰德·克鲁兹（Ted Cruz）的支持，这一信号预示着克伦肖的竞选形势岌岌可危。那次初选中，外部支出超过380万美元，这一数字已被肯塔基州的支出远远超越。
过去一年，总统一直对梅西发起抨击，而随着他准备于周三前往梅西所在选区的肯塔基州希布伦（Hebron），这一抨击愈发激烈。特朗普在启程前的Truth Social平台上发文，重申对加利恩的支持，并在另一篇帖子中预测，”梅西将成为美国国会漫长而传奇历史上最糟糕的共和党国会议员。”
梅西于周三上午在X平台（原推特）回应称：”我预测’总统’特朗普将勉强签署我那部美丽的爱泼斯坦档案透明度法案，这将导致世界各地焦头烂额的王子、大使、总理和首席执行官们因羞耻而被捕或辞职。哦，等等，这已经发生了。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/massie-on-fbi-doj-leaders-being-criminally-liable-if-trump-doesnt-release-all-epstein-files/
After Trump called for GOP Rep. Massie’s defeat, conservative groups spending over $5 million to try to oust him in May primary
Updated on: March 11, 2026 / 5:17 PM EDT / CBS News
Outside groups are already spending more than $5 million in hopes of unseating GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a May primary after President Trump called for his defeat.
So far, federal campaign finance records show that anti-Massie forces have dominated much of the outside spending picture in the Kentucky contest where the congressman is facing a pro-Trump challenge from Ed Gallrein, whose campaign website describes him as a farmer who has also served in the U.S. Navy. Spending disclosures show that a Super PAC has directed more than $2.8 million towards the contest since late February, while the group MAGA KY has spent around $2.7 million this cycle.
Since he arrived in Congress back in 2012, the Libertarian-minded Massie has taken lonely political stands on Capitol Hill, including voting against spending on the Iron Dome missile defense system for Israel, which has put him at odds with members of his own party. He was also one of the only House Republicans who voted against Mr. Trump’s massive spending and policy bill, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. His opposition towards high-profile GOP issues put him on a collision course with Mr. Trump last year, one that appeared to only accelerate after he helped push through a hard-fought transparency bill that forced the Justice Department to release an enormous amount of records from the Jeffrey Epstein case.
But Massie has benefited from some outside support, too, in his re-election run to the tune of around $1.18 million. Yet that figure is overshadowed by the cash attempting to help his opponent. Massie’s northern Kentucky district is reliably Republican and not expected to be competitive in the general election. This year isn’t the first time Massie has faced a primary challenge, but it is expected to be his toughest race to date, given the national dynamics and the attention of the president.
Massie is at risk of becoming another House Republican to fall in a primary. Earlier this month in Texas, incumbent Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw was defeated in a contest that saw State Rep. Steve Toth primary the congressman from the right.
Crenshaw failed to secure Mr. Trump’s endorsement, though the president did not publicly side against the incumbent. Around a week before his win, Toth was endorsed by GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in a warning signal of the way the race was going for Crenshaw. More than $3.8 million in outside spending went into that primary, a mark already far eclipsed in Kentucky.
The president has crusaded against Massie over the last year, a push that only grew as he prepared to head Wednesday to Hebron, Kentucky, which is in Massie’s district. Writing on Truth Social before his trip, Mr. Trump doubled down on his support of Gallrein, and later in a separate post predicted that “Massie will go down as the WORST Republican Congressman in the long and fabled history of the United States Congress.”
Massie responded Wednesday morning, saying in a post on X, “I predict “President” DJT will begrudgingly sign my beautiful Epstein Files Transparency Act, causing beleaguered princes and ambassadors and prime ministers and CEOs around the world to be arrested or resign in total shame. Oh wait, that already happened.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/massie-on-fbi-doj-leaders-being-criminally-liable-if-trump-doesnt-release-all-epstein-files/
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