2026-05-20T01:36:04.653Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/politics/massie-gallrein-kentucky-georgia-primaries
- 特朗普背书的挑战者埃德·加勒雷恩在周二肯塔基州共和党初选中击败众议员托马斯·马西。
- 同样获得特朗普背书的众议员安迪·巴尔赢得肯塔基州参议院初选，将接替即将退休的参议员米奇·麦康奈尔。
- 佐治亚州州长共和党初选将在特朗普背书的副州长伯特·琼斯和商人里克·杰克逊之间进行决选。
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当地时间周二，前总统唐纳德·特朗普的报复性政治攻势又击败了一名共和党对手，这位前总统背书的挑战者将这位总统所在政党党内的主要批评者之一、众议员托马斯·马西赶下台，此次选举发生在肯塔基州初选中。
前海军海豹突击队队员埃德·加勒雷恩击败马西的胜利，延续了特朗普在5月展开的政治报复行动。两周前，特朗普刚扳倒了5名投票反对其选区重划提案的印第安纳州州参议员，周六又击败了2021年投票弹劾特朗普的路易斯安那州两届参议员比尔·卡西迪。
这是肯塔基州初选选票上两场关键选举之一，凸显了特朗普对共和党选民的持久影响力。
肯塔基州的投票率先结束，当天阿拉巴马州、佐治亚州、爱达荷州、俄勒冈州和宾夕法尼亚州也同时举行初选。
以下是周二选举的关键收获：
特朗普曾誓言要对多名共和党人进行报复，无论他们是否真正冒犯过他。但多年来在开支、杰弗里·爱泼斯坦文件、美国对以色列的支持等议题上的争执，让总统对马西的初选尤其耿耿于怀。
“托马斯·马西是个糟糕的国会议员。从他上任第一天起就一直如此。和他打交道简直糟透了。我不认为他是共和党人，我觉得他其实——我觉得他其实是民主党人，”特朗普周二说道。
总统本人于3月亲自访问肯塔基州，国防部长皮特·赫格斯西周一还罕见地前往该选区，与加勒雷恩一同开展竞选活动，呼吁选民为国会输送特朗普的“ reinforcements”（增援力量），以便共和党能在11月的中期选举中保住微弱多数席位。
在历来以约30个百分点的优势选举出马西的肯塔基州第4国会选区，选民周二站在了特朗普一边。
马西的失败提醒全美华盛顿和州议会的共和党人：即便特朗普的支持率下滑至35%左右，其最忠实的选民群体之一也开始倒戈反对他，但他仍是共和党领袖，拥有权力迫使那些不追随他的人付出沉重的政治代价，而且他急切地想要行使这种权力。
这场竞选是美国历史上花费最高的初选之一，支持加勒雷恩的广告开支达1900万美元，支持马西的广告开支达1400万美元。
即将退休的参议员米奇·麦康奈尔曾是政治巨头——美国最有权势的共和党人，长期主导肯塔基州政坛。但当麦康奈尔拒绝附和特朗普关于2020年大选存在大规模舞弊的谎言后，特朗普对他产生了反感，而周二，麦康奈尔的统治时代悄然落幕。
在接替麦康奈尔的共和党初选中，特朗普的人选、众议员安迪·巴尔击败了前州总检察长丹尼尔·卡梅伦。卡梅伦曾被视为麦康奈尔的政治门徒和党内新星，但在2023年州长选举中输给民主党现任州长安迪·贝希尔后，他的光环逐渐黯淡。
特朗普不仅为巴尔背书，还说服另一位顶级竞争者、商人内特·莫里斯退出竞选并接受大使职位，进一步扫清了巴尔获得提名的道路。
三名候选人的政治生涯均始于为麦康奈尔实习。但此次初选表明，近年来麦康奈尔的影响力已大幅减弱。卡梅伦在初选中背离了麦康奈尔，完全倒向特朗普，而麦康奈尔本人则未对任何候选人进行背书。
巴尔获得提名后，成为肯塔基州下一任参议员的压倒性热门人选。如果他获胜，明年国会中将出现一位坚定支持总统的盟友，取代这位有时会与特朗普意见相左的重量级人物。
佐治亚州州长职位的共和党角逐因无人在周二达到50%的得票门槛，将进入决选。
获得特朗普背书的副州长伯特·琼斯将与商人里克·杰克逊展开正面交锋。
两人击败了两位全州范围当选官员：州务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格——因拒绝支持特朗普关于2020年大选舞弊的虚假主张而全国知名度上升，以及州检察长克里斯·卡尔。
获胜者将在11月面临民主党前亚特兰大市长凯莎·兰斯·博顿斯的挑战。民主党初选尚未决出结果，但核心问题是博顿斯能否获得50%以上的选票，避免进入决选。
特朗普展现影响力、并按自己的形象重塑共和党参议院多数席位的另一个机会即将在德克萨斯州到来。特朗普周二背书了州检察长肯·帕克斯顿，支持他在5月26日的参议院初选决选中挑战连任四届的现任参议员约翰·科宁。
尽管资深共和党人警告称，此举可能让共和党在11月的选举中面临输给民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科的风险，但特朗普还是背书了这位与“让美国再次伟大”运动结盟、但丑闻缠身的争议人物帕克斯顿。
科宁在社交媒体上回应特朗普对帕克斯顿的背书时指出，他99%的时间都与总统投票一致。
但他在2022年与民主党人合作通过了枪支安全法案，并且在特朗普2024年总统竞选初期并未迅速表态支持。与此同时，帕克斯顿在2020年迅速提起诉讼，质疑总统选举结果。特朗普明确表示，他寻求的是个人忠诚。
在特朗普的Truth Social平台上发布的背书帕克斯顿的帖文中，特朗普称这位总检察长“始终对我和我们令人惊叹的MAGA运动极为忠诚”。
他称科宁是“好人”，但补充道，他“在艰难时刻并未支持我”。
Trump ousts Massie, and other takeaways from Tuesday’s primary elections
2026-05-20T01:36:04.653Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/politics/massie-gallrein-kentucky-georgia-primaries
- Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein defeated Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky’s Republican primary elections on Tuesday.
- Rep. Andy Barr, also endorsed by Trump, won Kentucky’s Senate primary to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell.
- The Republican primary race for governor in Georgia heads to a runoff between Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and businessman Rick Jackson.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign steamrolled another Republican rival on Tuesday, with a Trump-backed challenger ousting one of the president’s leading intra-party antagonists, Rep. Thomas Massie, in a Kentucky primary.
Former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein’s win over Massie continued a May political payback tour that has seen Trump take down five Indiana state senators who voted against his redistricting push two weeks ago, and two-term Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted to impeach Trump in 2021, on Saturday.
It was one of two key races on Kentucky’s primary ballots in which Trump demonstrated his lasting influence with Republican voters.
Kentucky’s polls were the first to close on a day in which Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Oregon and Pennsylvania were also holding primaries.
Here are takeaways from Tuesday’s contests:
Trump has vowed retribution against a number of Republicans over slights real and perceived. But years of battles over spending, the Jeffrey Epstein files, the United States’ support for Israel and more led the president to take Massie’s primary particularly personally.
“Thomas Massie is a terrible congressman. He’s been a terrible congressman from day one. Dealing with him is just horrible. I don’t think he’s a Republican. I think he’s actually, I think he’s actually a Democrat,” Trump said Tuesday.
The president personally visited Kentucky in March, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a highly unusual trip to the district on Monday to campaign alongside Gallrein and urge voters to send Trump “reinforcements” in Congress, where the GOP is seeking to hold onto its narrow majority in November’s midterm elections.
In Kentucky’s 4th District, which has routinely elected Massie by about 30 percentage points, voters took Trump’s side on Tuesday.
Massie’s loss is a reminder for Republicans in Washington and statehouses across the country that even with Trump’s approval rating slipping into the mid-30s and one of his most reliable demographics turning on the president, he is the party’s leader, he holds the power to force those who don’t follow him to pay a steep political price and he is eager to wield it.
The race was one of the most expensive primaries in history, with $19 million being spent on advertising supporting Gallrein and $14 million on pro-Massie ads.
Retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell was once a political titan — the most powerful Republican in the nation and long a dominant force in Kentucky politics. But Trump soured on him when McConnell refused to parrot Trump’s lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, and on Tuesday, McConnell’s reign ended with a whimper.
In the Republican primary to replace McConnell, Trump’s pick, Rep. Andy Barr, defeated former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron — who was once seen as McConnell’s political protege and rising star within the party, though that star shined less brightly after Cameron lost the 2023 governor’s race to Democratic incumbent Andy Beshear.
Trump didn’t just endorse Barr. He further cleared his path to the nomination by convincing another top contender, businessman Nate Morris, to drop his campaign and accept an ambassadorship.
All three candidates got their start in politics interning for McConnell. But the primary showed just how much McConnell’s influence has faded in recent years. Cameron had turned on McConnell and fully embraced Trump during the primary. And McConnell, in turn, had not endorsed a candidate.
Barr’s nomination positions him as the overwhelming favorite to become Kentucky’s next senator. And if he wins, it will mark the replacement of a powerful voice that has at times broken from Trump with a staunch presidential ally on Capitol Hill next year.
The GOP race to replace term-limited Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is headed to a runoff after no candidate cleared the 50% threshold on Tuesday.
Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones will take on businessman Rick Jackson in the head-to-head.
The two topped a pair of statewide elected officials: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whose national profile rose after he refused to back Trump’s false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, and Attorney General Chris Carr.
The winner could face Democratic former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in November. That primary has not yet been called, but the major question is whether she will top 50% and avoid a runoff.
Another chance for Trump to flex his influence — and reshape the GOP’s Senate majority in his image — looms in Texas, where Trump on Tuesday endorsed Attorney General Ken Paxton in his May 26 Senate primary runoff against four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.
Trump’s endorsement of Paxton, a controversial figure with a long history of scandals who has aligned himself with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement, comes despite warnings from prominent Republicans that doing so could put the party at risk of losing the race to Democratic nominee James Talarico in November.
Cornyn responded to Trump’s endorsement of Paxton by noting on social media he had voted with the president 99% of the time.
But he partnered with Democrats in 2022 to pass gun safety legislation, and was slow to get in line behind Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. Paxton, meanwhile, rushed to court in 2020 to contest the presidential election. And Trump made clear that he was looked for personal loyalty.
In his Truth Social post endorsing Paxton, Trump called the attorney general “someone who has always been extremely loyal to me and our AMAZING MAGA MOVEMENT.”
He said Cornyn is a “good man,” but added that he “was not supportive of me when times were tough.”