{"id":2723,"date":"2025-07-15T00:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/thomas-massie-gop-congressman-who-broke-with-trump-reports-strong-fundraising\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T00:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:25:32","slug":"thomas-massie-gop-congressman-who-broke-with-trump-reports-strong-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/thomas-massie-gop-congressman-who-broke-with-trump-reports-strong-fundraising\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Massie, GOP congressman who broke with Trump, reports strong fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tWASHINGTON: US Rep. Thomas Massie has stockpiled more than $1.7 million for his re-election bid as the Kentucky Republican gears up to face President Donald Trump&rsquo;s vaunted political operation, Massie&rsquo;s campaign announced Monday.<br>Massie was one of two House Republicans to vote against Trump&rsquo;s massive tax bill and he said Trump lacked authority to bomb nuclear sites in Iran without congressional approval.<br>Trump aides launched a super PAC devoted to defeating Massie in his 2026 primary, the first concerted effort by the president&rsquo;s team to unseat a sitting member of Congress.<br>Trump&rsquo;s challenge to Massie sent a clear signal to other Republicans that they cross the president at their peril. But Massie&rsquo;s formidable fundraising will help him fight back. His sprawling district covers three television markets, making it an expensive place to campaign.<br>Massie raised just over $584,000 between April and June, bringing his total fundraising since the last election above $1 million, his campaign reported. The $1.7 million in his campaign bank account includes money left over from his successful 2024 re-election campaign.<br>The new PAC, Kentucky MAGA, will be run by two of Trump&rsquo;s top political lieutenants, his former co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita and longtime pollster Tony Fabrizio. They have not yet announced a challenger they will support but hope to unify Massie&rsquo;s Republican critics behind one person to avoid splitting the anti-Massie vote.<br>Elon Musk, a billionaire and one-time Trump ally, suggested he&rsquo;ll support Massie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                       <!-- \n                        \n\n<div id=\"POSTQUARE_WIDGET_122392\"><\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub>Thomas Massie, GOP congressman who broke with Trump, reports strong fundraising<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: US Rep. Thomas Massie has stockpiled more than $1.7 million for his re-election bid as the Kentucky Republican gears up to face President Donald Trump&rsquo;s vaunted political operation, Massie&rsquo;s campaign announced Monday.Massie was one of two House Republicans to vote against Trump&rsquo;s massive tax bill and he said Trump lacked authority to bomb nuclear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/thomas-massie-gop-congressman-who-broke-with-trump-reports-strong-fundraising\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Thomas Massie, GOP congressman who broke with Trump, reports strong fundraising&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}