Boebert Tries Having It Both Ways Endorsing Massie Over Trump Candidate
Trump backed Gallrein against Massie and had criticized Massie over his positions and actions.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYThe Daily Caller is an established partisan news outlet that publishes attributed reporting, but its partisan orientation and limited transparency around its editorial and correction practices warrant a moderate score. This brief article attributes Boebert’s statement to her X post but leaves some campaign-spending claims without clear sourcing.
- Source type — An established national outlet with a clear conservative partisan orientation.
- Editorial standards — The article presents reported claims and a direct quotation, but the brief text offers limited sourcing and context.
- Author attribution — The article names a reporter.
- Transparency — The page identifies its publisher and author; the article provides little detail about sourcing for campaign-ad spending.
The article includes a direct statement from Boebert’s post and relevant background on the dispute. It gives little response or perspective from Massie, Trump or Gallrein, and the campaign-spending figures are not attributed to a source in the text.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article quotes Boebert’s statement and provides context for the dispute, but does not include responses from Massie, Trump or Gallrein or explain the candidates’ positions beyond the criticisms it recounts.
- Counterarguments presented — No response from Massie, Trump or Gallrein is included.
- Source diversity — Boebert’s own post is quoted; other claims are not accompanied by a range of sources.
- Loaded language — The headline’s “tries having it both ways” is judgmental, while the body is more restrained.
- Omitted context — The article gives little detail about the candidates’ cases for support or the basis for ad-spending figures.
The article reports the endorsement and related campaign conflict in mostly factual language. Its headline frames Boebert as trying to have it both ways, but the text does not otherwise make a clear ideological argument.
- Language tone — The body is largely reportorial, though it describes Trump’s effort as aggressive.
- Headline — The headline’s “tries having it both ways” phrasing casts Boebert’s stance critically.
- Framing — The story centers on a Republican endorsement dispute rather than advancing a broader partisan argument.
Rep. Lauren Boebert endorsed Rep. Thomas Massie while also voicing support for President Donald Trump, who backed Massie’s primary challenger. The endorsement highlights a split among Republicans ahead of Massie’s Kentucky primary.
Boebert posted that Massie “loves America and is fighting to save it,” while also praising Trump and saying she supported both men. Trump had endorsed Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in the primary against Massie, whom Trump had criticized over his positions on the Iran war, a spending bill and the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related files.
The article says Massie voted against the spending bill in June 2025 and opposed Trump’s strikes against Iran. It also reports that Boebert backed a Massie–Ro Khanna discharge petition despite Trump’s pressure to withdraw her name, and that more than $25 million had been spent on ads in the primary race.
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SWIPE →President who endorsed Massie’s primary challenger and criticized Massie
Representative who endorsed Thomas Massie while also expressing support for Donald Trump
Boebert's version of this story ↗Representative and Kentucky primary candidate endorsed by Boebert
House candidate and Massie’s primary challenger, endorsed by Trump
Representative who joined Massie in a discharge petition
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