{"id":2032,"date":"2026-05-20T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/05\/20\/trump-tightens-grip-on-gop-after-massies-defeat-in-kentucky-primary-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:44:45","slug":"trump-tightens-grip-on-gop-after-massies-defeat-in-kentucky-primary-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"Trump tightens grip on GOP after Massie\u2019s defeat in Kentucky primary \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Other election results poured in as polls closed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kentucky\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Kentucky<\/a>, Georgia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Oregon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Among the most notable: US senator <strong>Tommy Tuberville<\/strong> won the Republican nomination for Alabama governor, former Atlanta mayor<strong> Keisha Lance Bottoms<\/strong> won the Democratic nomination for governor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Georgia<\/a> and state representative <strong>Chris Rabb<\/strong> won the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania\u2019s third congressional district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In Georgia, lieutenant governor <strong>Burt Jones<\/strong> and healthcare executive <strong>Rick Jackson<\/strong> will advance to a runoff in the Republican primary for the governor\u2019s race, while congressmen<strong> Mike Collins <\/strong>and<strong> Derek Dooley <\/strong>will advance to a runoff for the Republican nomination to compete against Democrat<strong> Jon Ossoff <\/strong>for his senate seat this November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other election results poured in as polls closed in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Oregon. Among the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}