Iran war gives Massie a primary opening as Trump drops into his district

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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is in the fight of his political life, but President Donald Trump’s Iran war might have given the libertarian gadfly the issue he most wants to contest in a primary election.

Trump would not deliberately help Massie after his remarkably personal attacks against the congressman and even his new wife last month. But Operation Epic Fury has provided Massie, a longtime critic of interventionist foreign policy, with the opportunity to portray himself as an independent representative for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District in Washington, D.C. 

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