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Ed Gallrein thanks Trump after Kentucky primary win
Fox News contributor Kaylee McGhee White and Republican strategist Luke Ball discuss Trump-backed candidate Ed Gallrein’s victory over Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District GOP primary on ‘Fox News @ Night.’
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President Donald Trump was the biggest winner of Tuesday’s wide slate of primary elections as the president celebrated a large swath of his preferred candidates winning GOP primaries or advancing to runoff elections.
Massie Ousted in Historic, Multimillion-Dollar Kentucky Primary
In the most expensive primary in U.S. House history, a longtime thorn in Trump’s side, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., lost to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in Kentucky’s 4th District. Gallrein defeated Massie soundly with nearly 55% of the vote to Massie’s 45.1%, according to The Associated Press.
The defeat will mark the end to Massie’s congressional stint, a tenure which, toward its end, saw Massie increasingly opposing Trump and criticizing the president’s actions on trade deals, the Jeffrey Epstein files and the Iran war.
In his concession speech, Massie highlighted the influx of support his opponent received from pro-Israel groups like the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
«I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv,» he joked to his supporters Tuesday night.
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Rep. Thomas Massie speaks with supporters after his concession speech in Hebron, Ky., on May 19, 2026. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
Pro-Israeli groups like AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition, as well as other pro-Trump groups, poured millions of dollars into attack ads against Massie and support ads for Gallrein. With over $32 million spent on the race overall, the contest became the most expensive primary in House history.
Trump and surrogates, like Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, campaigned arduously against Massie in Kentucky and in national media, with Trump referring to Massie as the «Worst Republican Congressman in History» in one of many pre-primary attacks on Truth Social.
Gallrein, for his part, thanked Trump for his support and told supporters «the winner of the race tonight is not so much Ed Gallrein… but it’s the Republicans of Kentucky Congressional District 4 and their families, who I will be a champion for in Washington.»
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Elsewhere in Kentucky, Trump-backed Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., won the GOP nomination for the state’s Senate seat, vacated by Sen. Mitch McConnell’s decision not to run for re-election. Barr defeated former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron handily, winning over 60% of the vote, according to AP. He will face former Kentucky state Rep. Charles Booker, who won the Democratic Party’s nomination Tuesday.
Raffensperger Falls Short in Georgia as Runoffs Take Shape
In Georgia, another Trump foe conceded defeat when the state’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger failed to advance in the GOP gubernatorial primary, falling behind Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and billionaire healthcare executive Rick Jackson, both of whom will advance to a June 16 runoff.
Raffensperger drew Trump’s ire in 2021 when he publicly contested claims Trump made that the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia were inaccurate.
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While Trump did not actively campaign against Raffensperger, he threw his support behind Jones, the race’s top vote-getter with over 38% of the vote, according to AP. Jackson finished with roughly 32.5%, compared to Raffensperger’s 15%, per AP.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks at a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Nov. 11, 2022. (Getty Images)
The winner of June’s runoff will face Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta who earlier this month collected former President Joe Biden’s first political endorsement since leaving office. Bottoms defeated her Democratic opponents comfortably, collecting over 56% of the vote, per AP.
In the state’s Senate primary, a race in which Trump chose not to place his thumb on the scale, Rep. Mike Collins and former NFL coach Derek Dooley both advanced to the June 16 primary, both gaining more votes than Rep. Buddy Carter, who will not advance.
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Collins, a strong and vocal supporter of Trump’s, gained the most votes, pulling in over 40%, according to AP. Dooley, a former football coach who most recently coached at the University of Alabama, advanced with just over 30% of the vote.
Tuberville Clinches Nomination; Tight Race for Alabama Senate Seat
Speaking of Alabama and football, former Auburn University head football coach and current U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., secured his party’s nomination to become the next governor of Alabama. Tuberville, who was also backed by Trump, will face former Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who won his party’s nomination Tuesday.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an event. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
To replace Tuberville in the Senate, Trump-favored Rep. Barry Moore advanced in the GOP Senate primary with close to 40% of the vote, according to the AP.
Former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson and Alabama Secretary of State Steve Marshall are neck-and-neck competing for the second spot to see who will advance to the June runoff to compete against Moore. With an estimated 5,500 votes remaining to be counted as of this writing, Hudson leads Marshall with 123,531 votes compared to Marshall’s 118,228, according to the AP.
Trump Sweeps Northwest as Democrats Notch Wins in Pennsylvania
Elsewhere in the country, Trump-backed candidates enjoyed victories in Idaho, as incumbents Gov. Brad Little and Sen. Jim Risch won their primaries. In Oregon, Trump-backed incumbent Rep. Clifford Bentz won his primary handily.
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Outside of Trump’s sphere of influence, Pennsylvania Democrats celebrated primary victories for a trio of candidates backed by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro. Bob Harvie, Bob Brooks and Janelle Stelson all won their primaries and will advance to face GOP incumbents in districts the Democrats hope to flip in November.
Fox News’ Sally Persons and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Turs, el primer agente turístico digital impulsado por Inteligencia Artificial en El Salvador
La industria turística de El Salvador incorpora una nueva herramienta digital con el lanzamiento de Turs, el primer super agente turístico impulsado por Inteligencia Artificial en el país.
La plataforma, presentada oficialmente el miércoles, busca transformar la forma en que los viajeros descubren y experimentan los destinos nacionales a través de la integración de tecnología avanzada y ofertas personalizadas.
Turs ofrece un sistema que conecta a turistas con una amplia variedad de opciones, desde rutas y atractivos hasta experiencias culturales y gastronómicas. El proyecto pone un énfasis especial en la interacción directa entre visitantes y anfitriones locales, con el propósito de destacar las historias y el valor humano detrás de cada recorrido.
El objetivo central, según los responsables de la plataforma, consiste en “mostrarle al mundo lo mejor de nuestro país” y fortalecer la reputación de El Salvador como destino turístico.
El lanzamiento de Turs representa un avance relevante para el sector turismo en un contexto de creciente digitalización global.
La plataforma se describe como una oportunidad para que millones de viajeros accedan a información actualizada, asesoría personalizada y una visión auténtica de la cultura salvadoreña. Los creadores del proyecto subrayan que cada experiencia promovida por el sistema lleva el sello de quienes hacen posible la hospitalidad local.
El sitio oficial de la plataforma, www.turslatam.com, ya se encuentra disponible para usuarios interesados en planificar su próxima visita a El Salvador.
Con esta iniciativa, el país busca posicionarse en el mapa internacional de innovación turística y responder a las nuevas tendencias de viaje que privilegian el acceso digital y las experiencias personalizadas.
El evento contó con la presencia de altos funcionarios y representantes del sector turístico, quienes destacaron el avance en políticas de seguridad y la apuesta por la innovación tecnológica para fomentar el turismo nacional e internacional.
La ministra de Turismo, Morena Valdez, y la viceministra de Relaciones Exteriores, Adriana Mira, participaron activamente en la presentación de la plataforma. Ambas funcionarias destacaron la importancia de la colaboración interinstitucional para fortalecer el sector y destacaron el respaldo del gobierno a la transformación digital como motor de desarrollo económico. “Esta nueva plataforma, Turs, está dando un valor agregado, que es que te ofrece una experiencia con los operadores turísticos locales en cada reservación”, expresó Valdez, citada por la Presidencia a través de su Secretaría
Por su parte, durante el evento, Raymond Villalta, fundador y presidente de Turs, resaltó el impacto positivo de las políticas de seguridad implementadas por el gobierno en la percepción internacional del país.
“El Salvador ahora lo podemos recorrer libremente, gracias a Dios, con seguridad, hacia todos lados. Gracias por todo ese apoyo, pero pasa algo; yo creo que le pasa mucho más al extranjero, que no conocemos todas las experiencias que se pueden vivir en El Salvador; conocemos las pupusas, la playa El Tunco, El Zonte y otros lugares preciosos; el lago de Coatepeque, lago de Ilopango y cada vez más cosas que hacer en el país”, afirmó Villalta, de acuerdo con la comunicación oficial de la Secretaría de Prensa de la Presidencia.
En el marco del acto, Villalta entregó un reconocimiento a la ministra de Turismo, Morena Valdez, por el reciente nombramiento de El Salvador como sede del Día Mundial del Turismo 2026.
Este logro fue celebrado como un hito sin precedentes para el país, ya que por primera vez será anfitrión de este evento internacional.
“Vamos a ser sede del Día Mundial del Turismo 2026 por primera vez en la historia de El Salvador; la verdad, me alegra ver a muchísimos actores del sector turístico de todas partes del territorio nacional”, señaló Valdez.
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The hidden left-wing network powering a ‘conservative’ rebellion against a major Trump priority
The AI data center backlash
Paul Gigot, Kim Strassel, Allyssia Finley, and Jason Riley discuss the growing progressive backlash against AI data centers. Citing environmental concerns, increased electricity prices, and potential job displacement, Bernie Sanders and AOC introduced legislation for a nationwide moratorium on new data center construction. The panel explores the economic implications and highlights the lack of clear evidence supporting claims of rising energy costs directly tied to data centers.
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A group billing itself as a grassroots conservative movement against new data centers carried out a series of nationwide protests enlisting the help of Green Party figures and Democratic-aligned activists, a Fox News Digital review found.
Though initially launched as a bipartisan project, Humans First has since become — in its own words — a «conservative social movement that is dedicated to ensuring that the future of AI is in the hands of everyday people.» Humans First’s nascent movement was supposed to build up to mass protests on July 18, when the organization says it sought to rally conservatives against the construction of new data centers.
The push put Humans First in tension with one of President Donald Trump’s major economic priorities — accelerating the data-center buildout needed to power America’s AI race.
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Nevada Big Blind center. (Zanskar)
While right-wing activist Amy Kremer is the public face of Humans First, the group’s paper trail shows that the organization didn’t start with her or even another conservative. Incorporation records reviewed by Fox News Digital list staffers from the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, as Humans First’s initial employees. The Center for AI Safety also provided a loan to Humans First to serve as start-up capital, NBC News previously reported.
In a similar vein, several of the local organizers named on Humans First’s website as planning the July 18 protests had backgrounds in left-of-center politics.
«I was one of the earliest leaders of the Tea Party movement in 2009, and I can tell you that the disconnect between the elites and the base that gave rise to the Tea Party movement can be seen today in the battle over AI data centers,» Kremer, chair of Humans First, told Axios in June.
During the Obama administration, Kremer was a top Tea Party activist and, more recently, she was one of the organizers of the «Save America» rally that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — a role that later became a focal point during her unsuccessful 2022 run for a Georgia congressional seat.
Her group says the July 18 protests were meant to «give grassroots Americans, particularly grassroots conservatives, a voice in the critical debate over policies relating to the building of massive AI data centers.»
Despite Kremer’s GOP bona fides and her stated goal of mobilizing conservatives, Fox News Digital found that several listed protest organizers had left-wing, Green Party or Democratic-aligned backgrounds, including a transgender Green Party House candidate, local progressive activists and a Democratic state legislative candidate.
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The program offers paid training, travel support, lodging and a job offer for qualified graduates entering AI infrastructure work. (Meta)
At the bottom of the Humans First webpage advertising the protests, the organization stated that the events it is promoting have not «necessarily» been «fully vetted or endorsed by Humans First.»
Humans First’s website listed a chapter of the Illinois Green Party as organizers for a protest just outside Chicago.
Among other causes, the Illinois Green Party supports solidarity with Cuba, divesting from Israel, expanding abortion access, decriminalizing prostitution, restricting gun laws and impeaching Trump.
Also affiliated with the Illinois Green Party is Alexandria Keating-Sofiakis, a transgender activist and congressional candidate who organized a separate Humans First protest about 50 miles north-west of Chicago.
Kremer has repeatedly posted critical social media messages about transgender issues, Fox News Digital found.
Keating-Sofiakis’s campaign website lists support for the Green New Deal, expanded abortion rights, ending American support for Israel and Medicare-for-all. Though the two disagree on much, Keating-Sofiakis told Fox News Digital that opposition to data centers transcends traditional ideological boundaries and made working with Kremer feasible.
«Data centers are a cross-partisan problem,» Keating-Sofiakis said. «From a conservative worldview, the drop in property values, increase in water costs, as well as increase in electrical costs that are affiliated with data centers are all antithetical to conservative values. Likewise, from a progressive worldview, the ecological damage alone associated with data centers is more than enough justification to oppose them.»
Keating-Sofiakis also pointed out that local Green Party activists received support from prominent conservatives such as Tomi Lahren and Lara Trump in a recent effort to free dogs from a medical facility.
«I am no longer hesitant to work with conservative figures and organizations on issues we share in common,» Keating-Sofiakis told Fox News Digital.
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Humans First defended its conservative credentials when reached by Fox News Digital.
«First off, we are happy to put our grassroots conservative and America First credentials up against anyone. I was one of the founders of the Tea Party movement back in 2009, and I was one of the earliest and most high profile Trump supporters back in 2015,» Kremer told Fox News Digital. «The men and women on our team are long-time conservative activists who have dedicated their lives to electing conservatives and fighting for conservative policies.»
Most of the official staff listed on Humans First’s website have spent a significant portion of their careers working in conservative politics.
«This line of attack is preposterous but not surprising. This is exactly the same line of attack we saw during the early days of the Tea Party. The establishment and their handmaidens in the media were willing to smear Tea Party activists as racists and bigots in their effort to defend the big interests of their corporate masters,» Kremer continued. «Instead of questioning our conservative credentials, how about asking how any so-called conservative can take money from the same big tech and big AI billionaires who have worked tirelessly to destroy the conservative movement over the last ten years.»
Fox News Digital obtained footage of five Humans First protests across California, Georgia, Missouri and South Carolina. Multiple demonstrators at the event in Gilroy, California, had signs protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a common antagonist for those on the left. Some of the protests were sparsely attended.
Nearly 1,000 miles south of its Green Party-linked protests in Illinois, Humans First’s protest page listed a Georgia activist group called People for Progress as the organizer of a local demonstration. The group was founded after the 2024 election to resist Trump’s agenda and protect «diversity, equity & justice.»
In Missouri, Humans First’s protest page listed the founder of CleanEarth4Kids as an organizer for a Springfield protest. CleanEarth4Kids has publicly urged followers to oppose several Republican-backed measures and support Democratic-backed bills. Ferguson Advocates for Civic Transparency (FACT), another group run by left-of-center individuals, organized an additional Humans First demonstration just outside of St. Louis.
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A press release obtained by Fox News Digital shows that the featured speakers at the event included a former Democratic state lawmaker, a current Democratic candidate for the state legislature and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Lady Huston, one of the organizers leading FACT, told Fox News Digital that Humans First hosted weekly Zoom meetings for its organizers and sent out regular mass emails with directions and suggestions for them. She, like the other left-of-center organizers working with Humans First, also stressed the opposition to data centers should be a nonpartisan issue.
«[Sen. Josh Hawley] is making statements and saying we need to do something about [data centers]. So, I never thought I’d care about anything this man had to say. But he is in tune with what’s happening with AI … and that we need some better understanding about the effects of data centers,» Huston told Fox News Digital. «So, I’m with him on that. You know, so it doesn’t matter to me what political party you are, but the subject is what matters.»
Back north in Michigan, Humans First listed Mitchell Distin, a Democrat running for state House, as an organizer for a protest, but has since removed that demonstration from its webpage. Fox News Digital reviewed a prior version of the page listing Distin before the demonstration was removed.
«While you are correct in your assessment that I am, by no means, conservative, the data center issue isn’t a left-right issue,» Distin told Fox News Digital. «It’s an issue without precedent, as it transcends party boundaries. And for that reason alone, I believe it’s showing that every day, common Americans actually have far more in common than they realize. We actually agree on the futures we want, not the futures that Big Tech execs want for us.»
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On what was recently farmland, Amazon data centers have been built as close as 50 feet from residential houses in the Loudoun Meadows neighborhood on January 20, 2023, in Aldie, VA. A Microsoft data center is under construction in at top right. As the data center industry expands its footprint in Northern Virginia, often building massive commercial structures near residential neighborhoods, communities push back with their concerns. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Not all the organizers who have signed up to facilitate Humans First’s nationwide protests are political liberals.
Cathy Latham, for example, is a longtime Georgia GOP official who is now working as a staffer with Humans First. She organized a July 18 protest in Waco, Texas. Latham was among the 18 defendants, including Trump, indicted in Georgia’s 2020 election-interference case.
Humans First claimed after July 18 that it had helped organize 142 protests across 42 states.
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Kremer, speaking to the Washington Examiner in May, expressed disgust with how AI companies have spent millions on lobbying and messaging campaigns to influence policy.
«I’m not for sale,» she told the Washington Examiner. «When I do something, I pour my whole heart and soul into it.»
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