A Super PAC supporting U.S. President Donald Trump has begun a $1 million ad campaign aimed at removing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.).
The 30-second advertisement from MAGA Kentucky PAC ran on June 27.
“After Trump obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Massie sided with Democrats and the Ayatollah,” it stated, showing Massie next to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.
Massie had announced on June 16 that he was going to be introducing a resolution barring Washington from entering the Israel-Iran war, and Ocasio-Cortez said she would be signing onto it.
The ad also criticizes Massie for voting against Trump on securing the border, tax cuts and banning sex changes for minors.
“Let’s fire Thomas Massie,” the ad states bluntly.
Massie responded on social media by stating: “The Big Beautiful Bill keeps getting worse in the Senate, so the desperate smear campaign against me has begun. This is from the sleazy $1,000,000 TV ad campaign running in my district now.”
In a separate post, he claimed that the bill “now allows funding sex changes for minors.”
According to Axios, the MAGA Kentucky PAC “is led by senior Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio,” and the president’s advisers “are actively recruiting a primary challenger to Massie.”
Massie had told reporters on Tuesday that he’s “looking for a ceasefire” with Trump.
