Morning Digest: The next eight days may be ugly for incumbents
Morning Digest: The next eight days may be ugly for incumbents Bill Cassidy just lost his primary. Thomas Massie, John Cornyn, and more could soon join him. Jeff Singer May 19 Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (left) faces a challenging primary in Kentucky’s 4th District. (Credit: Thomas Massie website) Leading Off Primaries Two Republican House members are in danger of losing renomination on Tuesday in the middle of what could prove to be a particularly brutal primary month for incumbents from both parties. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky got a fresh reminder of how much danger he’s in when Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, another Republican on Donald Trump’s purge list, took third place in a Saturday primary that occurred just three days before Massie’s own contest. Trump was quick to celebrate the defeat of Cassidy, who became the first elected U.S. senator to lose renomination since 2012 , with a Truth Social post calling Massie “an even bigger insult to ...