{"id":10764,"date":"2025-06-29T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-eyes-kentucky-state-senator-for-massie-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:31:43","slug":"white-house-eyes-kentucky-state-senator-for-massie-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-eyes-kentucky-state-senator-for-massie-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"White House eyes Kentucky state senator for Massie challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>White House officials will host Kentucky state Sen. Aaron Reed in the coming weeks for a discussion about challenging GOP Rep. Thomas Massie in next year&#8217;s Republican primary, according to two people granted anonymity to describe the private plans.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump and his political operation have been searching for a candidate to challenge Massie over his opposition to the president\u2019s \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d and his strike on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities. Trump political advisers Chris LaCivita and pollster Tony Fabrizio have launched a super PAC directed at defeating Massie that\u2019s already running a TV ad attacking the seven-term incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>Massie is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/25\/kentucky-thomas-massie-primary-trump-00422377\" target=\"_blank\">embracing the challenge<\/a>, fundraising off MAGA\u2019s slights and telling reporters last week he raised $120,000 in a single day off of Trump\u2019s threats to campaign \u201creally hard\u201d against him.<\/p>\n<p>Massie \u2014 who previously endorsed Reed for state Senate, and whom Reed in return had called &#8220;one of America&#8217;s greatest Congressmen&#8221; \u2014 did not immediately return a request for comment. Reed, a former Navy SEAL, was first elected to the Kentucky state house last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House officials will host Kentucky state Sen. Aaron Reed in the coming weeks for a discussion about challenging GOP Rep. Thomas Massie in next year&#8217;s Republican primary, according to two people granted anonymity to describe the private plans. President Donald Trump and his political operation have been searching for a candidate to challenge Massie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}