Shane Goldmacher

When you look at a suite of races in May, these are a pretty remarkable set of primaries where President Trump has laid out one singular criteria.

Will you be loyal to him?

And if you have crossed him before and not done his bidding, he wants you out and he wants people in, some of whom he has personally recruited, who he believes once in office will vote lockstep with him into the future.

Can you just look at the detailing in my dress?

Michael, it's great to be here.

Well, they did it in Texas, in Missouri, in North Carolina.

Indiana was one place where the Republican leaders in the state Senate resisted Trump's efforts.

Why?

I mean, they objected on political and moral grounds, right?

They didn't think it was the right thing to do.

They didn't think it was good for their politics.

And they didn't want to be seen taking orders from Donald Trump in Washington in the Indiana statehouse.

Well, the next race is in Kentucky, where the primary is in a couple weeks.

And one of the incumbent congressmen, named Thomas Massey, has been a bit of a thorn in Trump's side for a while.

He's a very conservative Republican, but he has opposed Trump on things like the Big Beautiful Bill, on the Epstein files, now on the Iran war.

And Trump and his political team recruited

An opponent for him in the primary, a former Navy SEAL named Ed Galrein.

And Trump recently traveled to Kentucky to campaign against Massey.

He has done a lot of posting on social media about Massey.

And Massey, I think he told her friend Shane here that he agrees with Trump on 90 percent of the things and has pushed back on 10 percent.