In biggest primary night so far this year, Democrats and Republicans vied for candidacy in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alabama, Oregon and IdahoMidterm primaries – live updatesDonald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the maverick congressman Thomas Massie in favour of the US president’s hand-picked challenger.Ed Gallrein, a retired navy Seal and farmer who was recruited into the race by Trump, defeated the seven-term incumbent in a primary election in Kentucky’s fourth congressional district in what the president’s allies framed as a test of whether dissent could still exist inside today’s Republican party. Continue reading...

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/kentucky-republican-primary-trump-massie