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Khanna: Massie ‘lost because he had the guts to take on the Epstein class’

May 20, 2026Center

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) suggested Tuesday that Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) defeat in Kentucky’s Republican primary was connected to his pressure on the Trump administration over its handling of the probe into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “My good friend Thomas Massie lost tonight,” Khanna said in a video posted on social media on Tuesday…

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