Paul has increasingly cast himself as a counterweight to Trump-style populism, arguing the GOP needs to rebuild a “free-market wing” made up of libertarians, business conservatives, and noninterventionists skeptical of foreign wars.
And no one in Washington is more closely aligned with Paul than Massie. The libertarian duo shares not just ideology, but also the wrath of President Donald Trump for bucking his administration on immigration enforcement, tariffs, the Iran war, and spending.
The willingness to diverge from Trump is why the president and MAGA allies have targeted Massie for defeat and are spending heavily in favor of his primary challenger, Ed Gallrein. No national GOP figure has gone more out of their way to stump for Massie against the Trump-led onslaught than Paul.
The race offers an early test of Paul’s clout and whether the kind of libertarian-leaning coalition he envisions leading in 2028 can still compete inside the
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