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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., warned in a Sunday interview on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that the Republican Party will be \u201cvery vulnerable\u201d during the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

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Asked whether the GOP was starting to break with President Donald Trump, Massie said Republicans were \u201cworried about their own political mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s true, you can take out Republicans in primaries, but Republicans are going to be very vulnerable this fall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Massie was defeated in a primary last week by former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, who was backed by Trump. The president strongly opposed Massie, repeatedly criticizing the congressman publicly and urging supporters to vote him out of office.<\/p>\n

Massie, who has broken with the Trump administration on issues including the war in Iran and the administration\u2019s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, said his split with Trump was \u201cabsolutely worth it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be worth it for the party,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, some people on the left have \u2018Trump Derangement Syndrome\u2019 \u2014 they call it TDS. But there\u2019s a growing number of people on the right who have a form of TDS called \u2018Trump Disappointment Syndrome.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd I think what\u2019s going to happen to the party this fall is they\u2019ve disenfranchised a large portion of that constituency that Trump assembled to get us in the White House, in the Senate majority and in the House majority,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Massie also called out the president\u2019s focus on issues like the construction of the White House ballroom, describing it to moderator Kristen Welker as a \u201cslap in the face of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ballroom, I mean, that is such an egregious waste of money,\u201d Massie said.<\/p>\n

Trump had repeatedly said that the ballroom would be funded with private donations (Comcast Corp., the parent company of NBCUniversal, is one of the donors). But this month, Republicans tried to pass $1 billion in taxpayer funds to go toward security related to the construction. Later, the Senate parliamentarian decided the bill would need to be rewritten to pass through the reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority for passage and wouldn\u2019t need any Democratic support.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president was bragging on the Roman architecture, when in fact we\u2019re operating like a Roman Empire,\u201d Massie said of the president\u2019s description of the ballroom. \u201cWe\u2019re overextended overseas with our foreign aid, with our foreign bases. We\u2019re spending money that we don\u2019t have, and the gasoline and rent and groceries are so high that people can\u2019t afford it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think it\u2019s dangerous to indulge in these things like a gold-plated ballroom in Washington, D.C., while Americans are suffering,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Later in the interview, Massie addressed possible White House ambitions in 2028.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he was considering a run for president, Massie said, \u201cI will not rule out anything, and right now, I\u2019m not going to rule in anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery hour that passes, I get decompressed a little bit more,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like coming up from the bottom of the ocean, and I\u2019ll take some time and decide what\u2019s next, but I think I will stay engaged in some way or shape. Maybe it\u2019s from the outside. I\u2019ve been exposing what\u2019s going on in Washington, D.C., for years, and I\u2019ll keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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