CRESCENT SPRINGS — From a family restaurant in Kenton County, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Crescent Springs, told his supporters his congressional voting card belongs to the people of his district.

What You Need To Know

  • Rep. Thomas Massie won the Republican primary election in the fourth congressional district race Tuesday night

  • The incumbent was first elected in 2012

  • He defeated Republican opponents Eric Deters and Michael McGinnis Tuesday

  • Massie will not face a Democratic opponent in November 

“It doesn’t belong to foreign countries,” said Massie. “It doesn’t belong to Republican leadership.”

Results show the Republican incumbent easily defeated opponents Eric Deters and Michael McGinnis.

Massie called the race a “referendum” on whether someone in Washington can vote like he does. 

“I don't vote for wars, and I don't vote for foreign aid,” Massie told Spectrum News. “That puts me apart from most of my colleagues in Washington, D.C., but hopefully my colleagues will see that you can get 75% of the vote back home if you just represent those things in the Republican Party.”

Massie has rankled some of his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill for attempting to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in part because of Johnson’s work with Democrats to pass a $95 billion foreign aid package.

“If there was any blowback from that, it wasn't enough to change the result of this election, and frankly, when I take votes or I do something like that, I'm not worried about blowback,” he said.

Though Massie, who previously backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president, did not get the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, he said he’s OK with that, and he expects he’ll cast his delegate vote for Trump at the national convention.

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