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Published: Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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Takeaways from Tuesday&#039;s primaries Skip to content NOWCAST WESH 2 News Sunrise Live Now Menu Search News Policies News Local News WESH 2 Investigates National News Politics Get the Facts Parks Central As Seen On WESH 2 Upload Weather Radar Alerts Hurricanes The Science of It Towercams Downtown Orlando Winter Park Port Canaveral Lake Eola NASA NSB Ocala Tavares JW Marriott Orlando World Center Melbourne Daytona Beach Sanford Traffic Sports Buccaneers Friday Night Hits Olympics Community Saving Our Streets CommUNITY Champion WESH 2 the Rescue Project CommUnity Community Calendar/Calendario Comunitario Share Your Christmas LawChat (Sponsored) Memorials Advertise with WESH 2 Advertise with CW18 About News Team Contact Very Local Privacy Notice Terms of Use SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL Weather Search Press enter to search Type to Search Search location by ZIP code ZIP Advertisement Takeaways from Tuesday&#039;s primaries: Massie&#039;s loss leaves no doubt about Trump&#039;s power over the GOP Takeaways from Tuesday&#039;s primaries: Massie&#039;s loss leaves no doubt about Trump&#039;s power over the GOP All right. Listen, I would, I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took *** while to find Ed Galrein in Tel Aviv. I did get the call through though. I have, I have called and conceded the race. Um, we&#039;ve been honorable the whole time and we&#039;re gonna stay that way. You know, welcome to the most expensive congressional primary ever in the 250 year history of this country. It&#039;s not just the most expensive. This thing went on longer than Vietnam. It started 9 months ago and they, they didn&#039;t even have *** candidate and they decided they want to take me out. Uh, I wanna start by thanking the volunteers who have put so much effort into this. Some of you came from all across the country, some of you are homegrown. Well, I love all of you. All right, I see, I see how this is gonna work. I&#039;m gonna have to not quit talking or you&#039;ll start doing it. Um, I want to thank my staff too. Some of my staff have been with me from the very first race in 2012, and they have done so much. They, you know, we&#039;ve never had, contrary to all the BS you&#039;ve heard, we&#039;ve never had *** single ethics complaint filed against me or my staff in 14 years. I, I wanna, I wanna thank the donors. Now listen, I&#039;d name them all, but there&#039;s 50,000 donors, OK? We didn&#039;t, we didn&#039;t lose this race because we didn&#039;t have enough money. You know, it, it is the most expensive race ever. I think when they add it up right now, they can count 35 million. I think when they add it up, it&#039;s going to be *** lot more than that because on our side, we know we spent more than 15 million. And, um, we were able to go toe to toe. There was never *** week that we got outspent more than 2 to 1 in this entire race, um, once it got underway. And that&#039;s, that&#039;s also, it did, it wasn&#039;t just th

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