Trump has ‘alienated’ voters ahead of midterms, warns ousted Republican Thomas Massie

GOP congressman says his party is set to count cost of ‘Trump disappointment syndrome’ after primary defeat Donald Trump’s Republican party is on course for a damaging rejection at the ballot box in November, according to a maverick US congressman ousted by a challenger handpicked by the president. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, became the latest of Trump’s targets to be defeated in the party’s primaries this week. He had repeatedly broken with the president over military action against Iran, government spending and the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. As control of US Congress hangs in the balance, Massie warned on Sunday that Trump has “disenfranchised” many of the Americans who voted for him – and their party – in November 2024. The libertarian-minded congressman, who will remain in the House of Representatives for the rest of year, promised to stay engaged in politics, even if “it’s from the outside”, and expressed no regrets for the actions that angered Trump, even though they helped prompt his defeat. “It was completely worth it,” Massie told Meet the Press on NBC. “And I’ve got seven more months to keep going against the grain