by Paul Dragu,The New American:

A House primary race that is threatening to become the most expensive in Kentucky history has become a battle between neocon megadonors and an emerging right-wing/libertarian coalition.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie told podcaster Tucker Carlson this week that his race has tightened up significantly. “It’s a single-point lead for me,” said Massie. “They’ve spent $10 million against me. … It’s going to be close.”

Betting markets had Massie up by 10 points just a few weeks back. Since then, ads for his opponent, a former Navy SEAL-turned-farmer named Ed Gallrein, have exploded on social media as well as traditional media.

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But one place Kentuckians have yet to see Gallrein is the debate stage. He has avoided numerous requests to tangle in the arena of ideas, including from friendly local radio hosts, as we previouslyreported. Massie told Carlson his opponent won’t debate because he doesn’t hold any genuine positions. He reminded listeners of President Donald Trump’s previous comment, that in Gallrein, he wanted a “warm body to beat Massie.”

Carlson reiterated that, unlike past races in which Massie won by large margins, this one is close only because of “the money poured into this race from outside of Kentucky.” In Massie’s words, “The real reason that this race is a serious race and I may lose is because a foreign lobby has fully funded — to the extent that they’ve never done in any Republican race ever before — my opponent.”

“Where did that money come from?” Carlsonasked.

“It’s come from billionaires. At least 95 percent has come from the Israeli lobby,” Massie said. He named the Republican Jewish Coalition, AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee), and a super PAC called MAGA KY that is funded by megadonors Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson. Massie noted that MAGA KY is “neither MAGA nor Kentucky.” What these people are doing, essentially, is “trying to buy a congressional seat in Kentucky.”

According to Massie, another group that is working against him is Christians United for Israel. “Their position is more war, it’s more strife, it’s more bombs, it’s send more foreign aid — and those are the things I’ve been voting against.”

Source: SGT Report