{"id":93497,"date":"2026-05-20T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rep-khanna-massie-lost-because-he-had-the-guts-to-take-on-the-epstein-class-against-the-war-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:42:03","slug":"rep-khanna-massie-lost-because-he-had-the-guts-to-take-on-the-epstein-class-against-the-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/rep-khanna-massie-lost-because-he-had-the-guts-to-take-on-the-epstein-class-against-the-war-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Khanna: Massie Lost Because He Had The Guts To Take On The Epstein Class, Against The War In Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) posted a video message after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) lost the Republican primary on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>REP. RO KHANNA (D-CA): My good friend Thomas Massie lost tonight. I&#8217;m angered by the smears on his character. He lost because he had the guts to take on the Epstein class. He lost because he had the guts to stand up against the war in Iran. He worked with me to pass the most consequential and popular piece of bipartisan legislation in recent history in the Epstein Transparency Act.   Many young voters under 50 voted for him. He was winning them by over 30 points. And today I say you may not have a home in the Trump coalition but there is a new generation of populist Democrats and we welcome you to help us change this country, change the rotten system and have a politics that puts the working class ahead of the Epstein class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/19\/rep_khanna_massie_lost_because_he_had_the_guts_to_take_on_the_epstein_class_against_the_war_in_iran.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) posted a video message after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) lost the Republican primary on Tuesday. REP. RO KHANNA (D-CA): My good friend Thomas Massie lost tonight. I&#8217;m angered by the smears on his character. He lost because he had the guts to take on the Epstein class. He lost because he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3130,137,3811,2084,3850,261,26930,561,21433,6493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}