Massie falls in Trump showdown as key Kentucky, Georgia races take shape

Another win for President Trump last night as one of his most persistent Republican critics on Capitol Hill lost his seat

Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey lost Tuesday's primary to Trump-backed challenger and former Navy SEAL at Galrain

in what has been described as one of the most expensive U.S. House primaries ever

Galrain's campaign got a boost not only from Trump's endorsement, but from heavy outside spending

including major support from pro-Israel groups, which Ad Impact says accounted for about half of the money spent to help his candidacy

Massey has been one of the GOP's most consistent critics of the U.S. involvement in the war with Iran

I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede

and it took a while to find Ed Galrine in Tel Aviv. Look, they used a lot of dirty tricks, but we stayed the course

We didn't bend a knee, we didn't throw a foul ball, we didn't do any of those things

We didn't kneecap anybody. We had lots of opportunities to try a lot of stuff like that, and we never did it

We ran a clean race We weren really running against Ed Galrine We weren running against Donald Trump We were running for what we believe in

Massey's term doesn't end until January, giving him several more months on Capitol Hill and more opportunities to clash with the Trump administration

Also in Kentucky, another Trump-backed candidate picked up a win. Congressman Andy Barr won the Republican primary for Mitch McConnell's open Senate seat

and will face Democrat Charles Booker in November. And Kentucky wasn't the only state with major races on the ballot Tuesday

In Georgia, voters pushed both the Republican governor's race and the GOP Senate primary into runoffs

Former college football coach Derek Dooley and Congressman Mike Collins advanced in the Senate race

after Congressman Buddy Carter fell short. Whoever emerges will face Democratic incumbent John Ossoff in one of the most watched Senate races of the midterms

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones and health care billionaire Rick Jackson will meet in a runoff for the governor's nomination

In Alabama, voters set up a familiar matchup. Republican Tommy Tuberville and former Democratic Senator Doug Jones will face off in the race for governor

six years after Tuberville defeated Jones for his U.S. Senate seat