Congressman Thomas Massie, a libertarian, and Elon Musk are now joining forces in their feud against President Donald Trump and his massive tax cut and spending bill, otherwise known as the so-called Big beautiful bill. Now, yesterday, Elon Musk pledged to support Massie, who also has a big problem [00:00:20] with the spending that's associated with the big beautiful bill. Both men say they're worried about how much the bill adds to the national debt, and Musk suggested that he would donate to Massie's reelection campaign in order to help him beat a Trump endorsed primary challenger. [00:00:38] Now, here's how Massie responded. He says, you're too kind, but thank you. A large part of my job is to keep government from screwing things up. For the engineers and entrepreneurs who do make this world a better place. I don't think enough people appreciate the contributions you and your team [00:00:56] have made to civilization. I like Thomas Massie Even though I disagree with him on probably most policies, and the reason why I like him is because he is principled. He actually seems to be the only lawmaker who is concerned about the national debt. [00:01:13] And you don't see principled politicians in Congress. So that's why I like him. I don't know how I feel about this alliance, because I don't see Elon Musk as a genuine person, and I don't want him to, like, muck up massie, if you know what I mean. I do. So, look, I don't particularly care where Massie gets his money. [00:01:32] Meaning, like, I'm not like, yay, Musk is going to give him money. Or he doesn't have money. Whatever. Do I want him to win over a Trump backed, ass kissing Republican? Of course. - On honesty alone. - Exactly. Like, even if I. Even if the Trump ass kisser that's going to run against him. [00:01:51] We should have a good acronym for that tack. Trump ass kisser. Right. So. So even if the tech agrees with us on policies more than Massey does, I still rather have Massey. Massey is at least honest and not corrupt. Right? [00:02:07] And you, you know that he's going to vote on principle and he's going to speak out and he's not going to be a little bitch. - Yes. - Right. Yeah. He's a huge, huge part of it. That's the thing that, you know what? You just helped crystallize what it is about Massey. That kind of puts him in top tier mode for me, right? [00:02:25] It's the fact that he is willing to say out loud what he knows is going to draw the ire of members of his own party and, more importantly, Donald Trump. That fearlessness really speaks to me and I, and I always appreciate that. Now, Massey also posted a lengthy statement on X, saying that [00:02:43] Elon's purchase of Twitter and cultivation of the X platform for free speech has already helped me help my cause immensely. It's allowed me to bypass conventional media to refute the lies of both political parties, and to provide transparency about how Congress works and what's [00:03:02] actually inside of the bills we vote on. Exposing the worst parts of the big, beautiful bill and reasserting congressional war powers has recently earned me the ire of the swamp and a fight for my reelection. But my reelection isn't really about either of those issues. [00:03:19] Specifically, it's a referendum on whether members of Congress can think and act independently based on what's best for the country, or whether all members of Congress must be reduced to rubber stamps for their respective political parties and swampy special interests. [00:03:37] So, look, Trump hasn't weighed in on the new alliance between Thomas Massie and Elon Musk yet. I'm sure he will eventually. But as we speak, he hasn't yet. But the president has continued attacking Massie today, writing that new poll anybody I endorse beats Thomas Massie of Kentucky by 25 points. [00:03:58] Get ready. Massie is a very bad guy. Massie is not a very bad guy. You are a very bad guy and you can't handle anyone disagreeing with you on anything. I mean, the threats toward anyone who slightly disagrees with Trump. [00:04:13] Insane. So, by the way, our research did not turn up that exact, 25 point number that was referenced by Trump. But there was a poll conducted by Kaplan Strategies, which surveyed approximately a big sample size here, 370 likely Republican primary voters [00:04:30] in Massie's district. And here's what they found in this one poll. So currently, Massie faces a declared challenger, registered nurse Nicole Lee Ethington, who leads him in a head to head matchup 31% to 19%, [00:04:46] with a majority of voters still undecided. Massie's favorability is also alarmingly low among the Republican base. So 23% view him favorably, 62% view him unfavorably. Donald Trump enjoys 89% favorability among the same group. [00:05:04] I don't believe that poll at all. Now, 72% say they are less likely to vote for Thomas Massie because of his opposition to Trump's tax cuts and budget, 58% are less likely to support him after learning he voted [00:05:19] against Trump's Israel policy. No polls. Total garbage. So the poll. Okay, let me just give you some more. And then we have one other poll that we can kind of, you know, judge this one up against. Okay. This but this Kaplan poll also revealed that Massie's district thinks, [00:05:37] the following about foreign policy. So only 6% support staying out of the Iran-israel conflict. 52% favor. By the way, again, this is a poll of like 360 people in Kentucky in his specific district. In Kentucky, 52% favored targeted action against Iran's [00:05:54] nuclear program, 31% support active U.S. Involvement to pursue regime change in Iran. No, this is total junk poll. - Yeah. - Okay. Yeah. So here's how Massie responded to the poll. You're going to love this. Perhaps some of you have seen a fake poll of my race floating around on the internet. [00:06:10] The pollster looks like a homeless person broadcasting from a stairwell in a crack house. He includes a photo of said pollster. They just interviewed him on Newsmax. I wonder what the host was thinking during the interview. Look, I will admit that is not an appealing shot or angle for the pollster. [00:06:31] The lighting is also terrible, nonetheless. No. Harry Enten reported on some relevant data when it comes to Trump's primary endorsements. So the enten data is real. So let me just dismiss the total junk poll. This is done by one of the apparatchiks on Trump's side. [00:06:48] And it's so hilariously, Obviously driven by special interests. That's why the reason why I say it's junk is it doesn't match any of the other polling I've seen, and it's off by a lot. Okay. And Massey has survived other challenges easily. [00:07:04] So this is a different ballgame. And overall, MAGA supports Trump over Massey. But his district has been super loyal to him. So I'm very I don't know which way it's going to go. I'd bet on Massey to win that election. But I'm not like saying, oh, I'm sure Massey is going to win. [00:07:20] But this poll that has him only at 19% approval? No. It's not even close. Right. But the one that's a hilarious and is a dead giveaway is only 6% of the people in that very conservative district in Kentucky supports staying out of the Iran-israel conflict. 94% want [00:07:39] to get right in the middle of it and put boots on the ground in Iran. Who knows? Maybe. - Sure. - Come on. Maybe that one district in Kentucky is, like, full of neocons. Yeah, yeah. All the neocons moved to Thomas Massie's district. Yeah. No, it's. This is a joke. So. But the next poll is real and disconcerting. [00:07:57] So let's go to Harry Enten, who specifically addresses Trump endorsed primary challengers. We actually have the data to show that the Republican base is with Donald Trump. The times Trump endorsed Endorsees won the GOP primary [00:08:14] for governor and congressional races. Look at this 2024 96% 2022 95% 2020 98%. The bottom line is this 95% plus of the time, the Trump endorsed candidate wins in GOP primaries. And even in the cases where Donald Trump endorses a challenger to an incumbent, [00:08:32] the majority of time that challenger wins. So Donald Trump is a winner in Republican primaries. You go against Donald Trump to quote the movie Good Burger, you go in the grinder. I got I would like to look into the methodology of that data, [00:08:47] how they gather that data. Because 2022, there were a ton of people that Trump endorsed that didn't make it. Yeah. No, no. It's misleading. So it's true. Overall, the number is not I don't think the number is wrong. - Kari Lake, Herschel Walker, doctor oz. - No no, no. But it's misleading is Trump endorses like the overwhelming majority [00:09:08] of incumbents and they all win. So it pumps up his numbers, right. And in fact, sometimes right wingers will get mad at Trump. They're like, why are you endorsing this total uniparty establishment neocon Republican? Because Trump wants that number to be big. So he just does blanket endorsements on the if you notice, Harry Enten said there [00:09:28] at the end, you might have missed it. He said when Trump backs a challenger to an incumbent, he still wins a majority of the time. Okay. Got it. Okay. Not 95% of the time. Barely a majority. And a lot of times he's lost spectacularly with Herschel Walker, Kari Lake [00:09:46] and the Lunatic in Pennsylvania, and the list goes on and on. So that's why it's a misleading number. But overall I see why. Of course people are concerned. So and they got to make that calculation. And Massey's got a set on him to say, you know what? No, I'm not going to bend to a Democrat and I'm not going to bend [00:10:03] to a Republican president. And I like that. I like that. Again, someone who's actually guided by his principles, his values, even if I disagree. And that's that's the kind of country I want to live in where you have good faith, actors who actually have values, you know, and aren't easily corrupted. [00:10:25] You know, we need a lot more of that in the Democratic Party. - Yes. - To say no. No. Why aren't you introducing the public option? Why aren't we voting on paid family leave? Why did you take $15 minimum wage out? Instead, all we had in the Democrats is, oh, Joe Biden, trust Biden, trust Biden. [00:10:42] Well, that was a disaster. It ran us straight into an iceberg. I wish a thousand times more Democrats had challenged Biden. By the way, this ass kisser happens on both sides. That's why, like Dean Phillips and Thomas Massie are such, you know. [00:10:58] Like odd characters from Washington's perspective, right. Massie challenged the Republican president, as you're seeing here, Dean Phillips obviously challenged Joe Biden in the primaries in the last time around, and they both got the same reaction from their sides. [00:11:13] I've seen MAGA say to Massie like, oh, he's kind of an oddball. He's he votes no on everything. Well, you guys used to love that. But now that he votes no on Trump's bill, they're like, no, you have to kiss daddy's ass. And on the Democratic side, Dean Phillips, how dare you challenge Joe Biden, [00:11:30] who's the youngest person to ever live and who's the most dynamic, greatest Democratic president ever. Dean Phillips, you're bad. Terrible. Disloyal, right? Yeah. No, those are the people that ruin the party because you need internal criticism to make the party better. [00:11:46] Look. Look at what we say on the left about America because we criticize America. America doesn't mean we hate America. It means we want America to be better. Right. So the same thing goes for your party, whether you're Republican or Democrat. You don't criticize Democratic Party because you hate it. [00:12:03] You criticize them because you love it and you want to make it better. Right? Love. It is a bit strong. Okay. But you want to make the party better. And that's how if you if you just go, oh, okay, let's just do nothing like James Carville saying, well, that's a recipe for disaster. [00:12:18] And that's why they're sitting at 26%. And eventually look, the Republicans. - You're being look. - Yeah. I think you're being super unfair to Democratic leadership. In fact, I've been unfair because I was under the assumption that they weren't fighting back against the so-called big beautiful bill. [00:12:36] But Ken Klippenstein, one of the best journalists in the country, really did correct the record here. So, Senator Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, did do something really important today. I hope it's a strongly worded letter. He no even more important than that, he rebranded the bill. [00:12:53] He tweeted today I just forced Republicans to delete their ridiculous bill name. It's no longer named the one Big beautiful Bill. Nothing about this bill is beautiful. It's a betrayal to American families, and it's undeserving of such a stupid name. [00:13:13] Thank you, Senator Schumer. Thank you. So that's how he stopped the bill? Oh, no. The bill. - He just renamed. - It. Yeah. Okay. In his mind, he renamed it. It's actually what Democrats are really good at. They love renaming things and rebranding things without actually doing anything about the underlying issue. [00:13:29] You know, don't call it homelessness, call it unhoused, but don't actually address the issue. Yeah. 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