The Republican primary race in the 4th Congressional District of Kentucky between Ed Gallrein and incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie — the most expensive House primary in American history — came to a definitive end on Tuesday, and President Donald Trump is no doubt pleased with the results.

With over 69% of the votes in, NBC News called the primary for Gallrein, who was leading Massie by over 7,000 votes and roughly nine percentage points. At 7:41 p.m. ET, Decision Desk HQ announced Gallrein as the projected winner as well.

‘Ed Gallrein, a successful Kentucky farmer, and American War Hero … only ran because he thought that Massie was so disloyal and disrespectful to your President.’

Gallrein — the Navy SEAL veteran backed by Trump, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other powerful forces — stated when launching his campaign in October, “This district is Trump Country. The president doesn’t need obstacles in Congress — he needs backup. I’ll defeat Thomas Massie, stand shoulder to shoulder with President Trump, and deliver the America First results Kentuckians voted for.”

Massie said of Gallrein’s candidacy: “The uniparty in DC finally found someone willing to be a rubber stamp for globalist billionaires, endless debt, foreign aid, and forever wars in failed candidate and Lindsey Graham donor Ed Gallrein.”

In the months since, both candidates have hammered home these critiques — Massie framing Gallrein as a top choice for foreign or dual-national elites and Gallrein framing the incumbent in turn as an obstructionist “turncoat.”

Trump has been politically invested in this race, having vowed in March 2025 to “lead the charge” against Massie, anointed Gallrein as the challenger, and routinely attacked the incumbent online and in interviews.

Days before the polls closed, Trump wrote, “Kentucky, get this LOSER out of politics in Tuesday’s Election. He is nicknamed Rand Paul Jr., another real ‘beauty,’ because of his absolutely terrible voting habits. Vote for Ed Gallrein, a successful Kentucky farmer, and American War Hero, who only ran because he thought that Massie was so disloyal and disrespectful to your President, ME!”

RELATED: Massie takes aim at AIPAC with new bill about Nazi-era law

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Trump’s successful campaign against Massie comes hot on the heels of his ouster of Sen. Bill Cassidy, who flunked in the Republican Louisiana primary on Saturday.

The president shared a picture of Gallrein just before 8 p.m. ET on Truth Social celebrating his victory.

AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition were also heavily invested in the race, having spent millions to unseat Massie, who has in recent years voted against funding Israel’s aerial defense; criticized Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza; criticized Israeli influence on Congress; and opposed the joint U.S.-Israeli operations in Iran.

Massie, who has been in office since 2012, emphasized that the election had become “an inflection point for our whole country.” Evidently, this pivotal moment favored the challenger from Shelby County.

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A controversial Democratic candidate for the U.S. House said that she would convert an ICE detention center into an internment camp for “American Zionists” if she won.

Maureen Galindo is a sex therapist and single mother of three children who is running for the 35th congressional district in Texas.

‘I’ll start the process of having all American candidates and elected officials who knowingly accepted Israeli-affiliated money tried for treason.’

She posted the bizarre campaign promise on her Instagram account over the weekend.

“She’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,” she wrote about herself in the third person.

“It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists,” she added.

Galindo is vying against former Bexar County Public Information Officer Johnny Garcia in the Democratic primary runoff, which is scheduled for May 26.

She said Garcia should be tried for treason for being supported by Israel and added that any other politician supported by Israel should be tried for treason.

“In fact, as soon as I’m elected, I’ll start the process of having all American candidates and elected officials who knowingly accepted Israeli-affiliated money tried for treason,” she said.

She has also claimed that the Jews own Hollywood and use “books and movies to create realities.”

Her rhetoric has been condemned by state Rep. James Talarico (D), who is running for one of two U.S. Senate seats for Texas.

“This anti-Semitic rhetoric has no place in our politics,” he said. “We need leadership in both parties willing to stand up and call out hate wherever it rears its ugly head.”

He said he would not campaign alongside Galindo, even if she won the runoff election against Garcia.

RELATED: Former Bernie Sanders staffer says her anti-Israel speech is being suppressed after The Hill fires her

“I stand with Jews, and the Jews are saying that Zionists are not real Jews,” Galindo previously said.

Galindo, who runs Exulted Sex Therapy in San Antonio, also ran for city council in that city. She reportedly offered “kinky birthchart readings” and “live tarot therapy” to “empower individuals through the exploration of their sexuality, spirituality, and the stars.”

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The candidate backed by President Donald Trump to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) won quickly after the polls closed in Kentucky Tuesday evening.

Despite only 7% of precincts reporting, CBS News declared Rep. Andy Barr (R) the winner after he garnered an impressive 62.7% of the vote, compared to 28.7% for his closest competitor, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron.

‘Like President Trump said, Andy knows what it takes to get things done and deliver BIG for the America First agenda.’

The seat in the U.S. Senate is soon to be vacated after McConnell announced in February that he was not seeking re-election in what would have been his eighth term in office.

The Republican primary contest had been heated until the president called on former candidate Nate Morris to drop out of the race in exchange for an ambassador position. Morris went on to endorse Barr after dropping out.

Prior to dropping out, Morris called both Barr and Cameron “puppets” belonging to McConnell.

Barr will go on to face a Democratic candidate in the general election in November, but he is very likely to win in the far-right Republican state.

Trump described Barr as “a wonderful man who’s been with me all the way” during a Trump rally, according to video posted by WHAS-TV.

“Congratulations to Kentucky’s next senator, Andy Barr. Andy is a proven conservative champion who puts Kentucky first,” Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said on social media.

RELATED: Trump accuses Democrat governor of MASSIVE election fraud; officials say it was a printer error

Morris had gotten an enormous boost from Elon Musk in January when the tech billionaire donated $10 million to the Fight for Kentucky super PAC, which supported Morris.

“Like President Trump said, Andy knows what it takes to get things done and deliver BIG for the America First agenda,” Morris said on social media after dropping out.

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Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing is speaking candidly about his unexpected departure from the company he helped build, revealing to BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey the emotional and personal toll the split has taken on him.

“I didn’t expect to be separated from the Daily Wire. It’s not what I wanted. It’s not something that I thought even could happen, much less would happen. It’s the biggest blow I’ve ever gone through,” Boreing tells Stuckey.

In the aftermath, Boreing has had to remind himself that “it’s OK to deal with embarrassment in life.”

“It’s OK to deal with setbacks in life. It’s OK to not be where you thought you’d be or not where you want to be, which are lessons that I knew very well in my 20s and 30s before Daily Wire because I failed a lot during that period,” he explains.

“So, I’m not in the place that had I hoped to be. I’ve moved back into an apartment, and that’s OK. I’ll just take the next step and do the next thing and keep acting in concert with what I hope are, on the majority of days, rightly ordered priorities,” he continues.

Those priorities, Boreing explains, are “mission first, business second, ego considerations third.”

And they’re what helped him create the Daily Wire.

“I couldn’t have dreamed of where my steps took me in relation to the Daily Wire. Certainly, Ben and Caleb and I never imagined when we started that company where it would go or the things that we would achieve or the places that it would take us,” he says.

While Boreing admits that he hates “how things ended at the Daily Wire” and hates many of his own choices while there, he says he is “incredibly proud of the Daily Wire.”

“I’m so proud of the work and the people and, you know,” he says, adding, “certainly would not say in any way that I regret the experience or regret the journey.”

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Today, the United Kingdom (under Starmer’s Labour Party) is often described by conservatives as “prison island,” where free-speech crackdowns, unchecked mass immigration, economic stagnation, and political turmoil create a crushing dystopia.

Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss tells Glenn Beck that Margaret Thatcher — the conservative prime minister who held office from 1979 to 1990 and was one of the most influential figures in modern British history — would be “horrified” by what the U.K. has become.

“We are now on the verge of a debt crisis. If you remember, she was brought in to solve the debt crisis in the ’70s, and we’re now back to where we were in 1979 when she got into office,” says Truss.

“But she’d also be horrified by what’s happened on immigration, by the way that we have given all these powers on human rights to these unelected international bodies,” she adds.

Glenn wonders who will rise up to defeat the communist takeover of the U.K. “We got Trump. … Who is on the horizon that you see … in Europe who has the skill to be able to stand the heat?” he asks.

Truss says it’s difficult to say because the environment Thatcher was in is completely different than the environment conservative politicians are in today.

“In Britain, there’s obviously Kemi Badenoch, there’s Nigel Farage. Are they tough enough to take on what is an even deeper state than Mrs. Thatcher faced?” she asks, noting that Thatcher “did not face the unaccountable Bank of England” or the “fake Supreme Court” created by former PM Tony Blair.

“[Thatcher] didn’t face all this. So it’s even worse now,” says Truss, “and the bureaucrats have become radicalized. They’re transgender activists, they’re environmental activists. So dealing with that is huge.”

What the U.K. needs, she says, is an “anti-system leader” like Donald Trump to recapture the nation from “the elites who’ve been running [it] into the ground.”

But even a strong leader won’t be enough to reverse course.

“You also need a movement of people,” says Truss, noting that Britain hasn’t experienced the widespread anti-socialist movement the United States has seen, which has allowed the Labour Party to push a radical agenda.

“As soon as Labour got in, it’s like ‘let’s just close the door on all that. We’ve got the money now, we can go back to being socialist. In fact, we can introduce more and more progressive ideology into our state,’ and that’s what’s happened,” she explains.

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Mitch McConnell’s latest procedural misstep is giving fresh ammunition to the term-limits movement. Last week during a committee hearing at which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth testified, the 84-year-old Kentucky senator attempted to wrap things up early by thanking attendees and ending the session.

A staffer had to interrupt him to note that several senators still had questions.

The clip has gone viral and sparked more criticism of McConnell’s fitness and acuity.

On a recent episode of “Pat Gray Unleashed,” Pat Gray reacted to the clip.

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“I just filled up my Depends,” Pat mocks, imitating McConnell’s raspy Southern drawl.

Co-host Keith Malinak saw the incident as evidence that McConnell is declining cognitively as well as physically.

“His brain was a little scattered,” he says, noting how McConnell’s reasoning for ending the meeting early jumped illogically from letting Senator Murkowski take over to claiming Hegseth had to catch a flight with the president to China.

“I don’t know if McConnell knew what the hell he was trying to say,” he says.

“He didn’t. He doesn’t,” says Pat.

Keith remarks that the staffer who reminded McConnell that several senators still had questions is the one who’s really in charge. “That kid is the senator,” he quips.

“Yes, that’s right,” says Pat. “That’s what happens when you got 85-, 90-, 95-, 100-year-old representatives who are running this country.”

He admits that the nation is in a pickle when it comes to replacing someone like Mitch McConnell because the alternative isn’t much better.

“You can have the Democrat communist … or you can put up with the super-old ancient mariner of a senator,” Pat says, noting that he would “feel really badly for [McConnell] right now if he wasn’t a U.S. senator in high positions running committees and hearings.”

“Go home and enjoy the remaining years that you have,” he pleads.

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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said the FBI is now involved in the investigation to find the culprits in a teen takeover brawl over the weekend at a Washington, D.C., Chipotle restaurant — and Pirro blasted the brawlers’ parents, WJLA-TV reported.

“This kind of thing is destroying the quality of life in the District,” Pirro said at a news conference Monday, the station reported. “Residents are finding it extremely difficult to enjoy public parks and spaces, as well as waterfront areas. The residents are starting to feel like these out-of-control teens are taking away their happiness and their quiet enjoyment.”

‘It was like an ambush. They looked like ninjas, dressed in black, with ski masks, and they just piled into the main eatery.’

What’s more, Saturday night’s teen takeover brawl occurred just one day after Pirro promised a crackdown on juvenile crime in the District of Columbia by holding parents responsible.

“These teens, they need to find something productive to do,” Pirro said, according to WJLA. “Parents, that’s your job.”

The Metropolitan Police Department said the incident began as a shouting match between two groups of youths and then escalated into a brawl, the station reported.

“It was not just violence occurring between individuals. It was simply destruction of property,” Pirro said, according to WJLA. “It was a takeover of a restaurant by individuals who felt like they could get away with it. Well, they’re not going to get away with it.”

Pirro said she intends to “aggressively” prosecute the teens involved as well as their parents, the station noted.

“If you know where your teen is and what they are doing and allow them to continue their conduct and continue to allow them to flourish, we’re going to prosecute you,” Pirro stated, WJLA reported.

RELATED: ‘Teen chaos in DC’: Brawl with chairs used as weapons erupts in Chipotle after Pirro’s warning to parents of thugs

However, Pirro also said she needs D.C. Public Schools to help by giving her access to truancy records, the station noted.

She also said the Metropolitan Police Department and the Office of the Attorney General of D.C. are in place to assist with the prosecution of parents, WJLA reported.

In addition, Pirro implored the D.C. Council to reinstate a discretionary curfew so police can track and stop teen takeovers before they happen, the station said.

“We are in the most important city in the nation,” Pirro added, according to WJLA. “This is the nation’s capital. This is where the nation’s 250 anniversary will take place on July. This is where we have to make people proud of that city on the hill, and unless we come together and do this together, it will not happen.”

The station said video recorded inside the Chipotle during the brawl shows a man in a red shirt trying to protect his children. WJLA said it spoke to that man — Rafael Jauregui — on Monday, and he shared that he took his seven children to the Nationals-Orioles baseball game Saturday — and then to dinner at Chipotle.

Jauregui’s five youngest kids — who range in age from 4 to 14 years old — were with him inside Chipotle when a brawl erupted, the station said.

“At that point, I tell the children, ‘Get with me, get up, let’s start backing up,'” the dad told WJLA. “And then it was like an ambush. They looked like ninjas, dressed in black, with ski masks, and they just piled into the main eatery.”

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Jauregui said he and the kids were backed into a corner. As an Air Force veteran, he said his military training kicked in, and he looked to see if any of the teens were armed with guns or knives, but didn’t see any. Instead they lifted high chairs and other chairs and smashed them over each other while fighting. Rafael says he decided to protect the space around his kids, and not to allow any of the fighting teens to get too close.

He said he’s proud that his two sons who were with him shielded their three younger sisters. But at the same time, he says his kids never should have had to witness what happened.

“My son said on the way home, ‘Papa, I can’t unsee that,'” Jauregui recounted to WJLA. “Those individuals have now directly impacted my security, my life. My children are now talking about [how they never] want to go to Chipotle again. Or at least not that one.”

RELATED: Democratic mayor declares public emergency and reinstitutes juvenile curfew in DC

Jauregui added to the station that he supports Pirro’s plan to crack down and charge parents in some cases.

“[I’m] in line with what the U.S. Attorney is trying to do, saying, ‘Hey, listen, this is not just teenagers messing around, this is next level.’ Where a dad can’t bring … kids to a Nats’ game and grab a bite after,” he noted to WJLA.

Laurie Schalow, Chipotle’s chief corporate affairs officer, told the station in a statement that “the health and safety of our employees and our guests is our highest priority. We have zero tolerance for guests who behave recklessly in our restaurants and put others at risk. No team members or guests were physically injured, and we are actively supporting local law enforcement in their investigation of the incident.”

Pirro said during a news conference on Friday that “parental involvement has been a noted gap in any discussion [about teen takeovers]. That ends today,” WJLA said.

Pirro told the station her office immediately would begin “aggressively prosecuting parents,” and that she would be going after them specifically for “contributing to the delinquency of a minor,” which she said is covered by D.C.’s curfew law.

“This statute makes it unlawful for an adult to enable, facilitate, or permit a minor to engage in delinquent acts,” Pirro noted to WJLA. “The penalty is up to six months imprisonment.”

She also said parents could face fines and mandatory classes in addition to jail time, the station said. Pirro also said parents could be charged even if their children involved in a takeover aren’t prosecuted, WJLA reported.

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Vice President JD Vance revealed Tuesday that Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice.

Omar has faced several accusations related to a previous marriage and her possible role in the Feeding Our Future scam, as well as her financial disclosures about investments that grew exponentially once she got into office.

‘You read the things about Ilhan Omar and about who she married and whether she didn’t marry this person or that person.’

On Tuesday, Vance appeared to refer to allegations that Omar committed fraud involving her brother. The vice president is leading the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud for the Trump administration.

“You previously mentioned that Ilhan Omar seemed to have committed immigration fraud. Do you anticipate an indictment against her? An indictment related to that situation,” asked a reporter.

“So I don’t want to prejudge an investigation. I mean you read the things about Ilhan Omar and about who she married and whether she didn’t marry this person or that person,” Vance responded.

“It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody’s entitled to equal justice under the laws, so we’re going to investigate it,” he added. “We’re gonna take a look at it. If we think that there’s a crime, we’re gonna prosecute that crime. And that’s something the Department of Justice is looking at right now.”

Vance was far more certain about the congresswoman’s alleged fraud when he spoke on a podcast in March.

“Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” Vance said at the time. “She has been at the center of a lot of the worst fraudsters at the center of the Somali community.”

Omar responded to that claim soon afterward.

“This is rich coming from someone who literally said they were willing to ‘create stories’ to redirect the media,” read a statement from Omar to Fox News.

She was referring to an admission by Vance that he had “created stories” in order to get media coverage to help advance his political agenda.

RELATED: Omar claims Trump wants to sleep with his daughter and calls MAGA ‘stupid’ in crazed rant

“This is a ridiculous lie and desperate attempt to distract from the pedophile protection party’s unpopular war of choice, increasing gas prices, and rapidly dropping polling numbers,” she added.

Omar has also been accused of allegedly financially benefiting from her position in Congress after she reported a massive increase in the valuation of her assets in a financial disclosure. Months later, she filed a correction that indicated an error by tens of millions of dollars — spurring on even more suspicion.

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