托马斯·马西为什么在初选中“落败”？
美国众议员托马斯·马西是否是一起被窃取的初选的受害者？
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Paul Craig Roberts
有人提出疑问：这次初选是否从美国众议员托马斯·马西手中被窃取。
被认为暗示初选遭窃取的证据包括：
埃德·加尔雷恩（Ed Gallrein）的胜选派对上只有 30 到 40 人。
马西在发表败选演说时却有数百人到场支持。
加尔雷恩在肯塔基州只有 70 名竞选捐助者，他的竞选资金来自选区外、甚至州外。
马西在肯塔基州有 1,545 名竞选捐助者。
投票结果与民调显示的趋势有显著差异。
最后时刻出现了 1 万张邮寄选票。
初选投票率出现极不可能的 356% 激增，这被视为“未投票的人被投了票”的迹象。所谓的“幽灵选民”并未出现在加尔雷恩的胜选派对上。
以色列游说团体为击败马西投入至少 1,000 万美元（总计 3,000 万美元的“战争基金”），而特朗普还派出国防部长到竞选现场强调马西挑战者的优点，因此对以色列/特朗普阵营来说，失败并不是选项。加尔雷恩以 1 万票获胜，这让人不禁联想到最后时刻出现的那 1 万张邮寄选票。
另一种解释是：肯塔基州的共和党人过去 14 年一直对马西感到满意，但当特朗普强调双方的分歧时，他们便转而抛弃了他。或许并没有多少选民真正投入到了解议题、理解利害关系之中，而只是顺从了总统的立场。换句话说，这个结果是美国人漫不经心态度的又一个后果。
Questions have arisen whether the primary election was stolen from US Rep. Thomas Massie.
Among the evidence suggesting a stolen primary are:
A total of 30 or 40 people at Ed Gallrein’s victory party.
Hundreds of people showing support for Massie at his concession speech.
Gallrein had 70 campaign donors from Kentucky. His campaign funds came from outside the district and the state.
Massie had 1,545 campaign donors from Kentucky.
The vote split was substantially different from what the polls indicated.
10,000 mail-in ballots appeared at the last minute.
A highly improbable 356% increase in voter turnout in a primary election, an indication that people who did not vote got voted. The ghost voters were not present at Gallrein’s victory party.
With the Israel Lobby contributing at least $10 million of a $30 million war fund to unseat Massie and with Trump sending the Secretary of War on the campaign trail to stress virtues of Massie’s challenger, defeat was not an option for Israel/Trump. Gallrein won by 10,000 votes, which makes one wonder about the last minute 10,000 write-in ballots.
An alternative explanation is that Kentucky Republicans were satisfied with Massie, as they had been for 14 years, but abandoned him when Trump emphasized the split. Perhaps not many voters were sufficiently involved to understand the issues and what was at stake and just went with the president. In other words, the outcome was another consequence of insouciant Americans.