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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.

  • Results are coming in from primary elections in six states yesterday.

  • Perhaps one of the most closely watched was a battle for a single congressional seat in Kentucky.

  • President Trump himself was not on the ballot,

  • but NPR's Domenico Montanaro reports he played a key role in this race.

  • Trump is on something of a revenge tour.

  • The latest casualty, Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky.

  • He lost to a Trump-backed challenger by about 10 points Tuesday night,

  • and he saw tens of millions of dollars spent against him.

  • In fact, it was the most expensive House primary in history, with $33 million spent on TV ads.

  • Massey was a thorn in Trump's side,

  • helping force the release of millions of pages of the Epstein files, for example.

  • Now he joins a list of perceived political enemies

  • that Trump has gone after, often successfully, in GOP primaries.

  • But while Trump has proven his strength with the Republican base,

  • general elections are a different story,