据决策台总部（DDHQ）预测，共和党人埃德·加尔雷因（Ed Gallrein）——一名退役海豹突击队队员兼农场主——将在肯塔基州第4国会选区的竞选中获胜。该席位目前由批评特朗普总统的共和党众议员托马斯·马西（Thomas Massie，肯塔基州）担任。加尔雷因获得了特朗普的背书，击败了民主党人梅丽莎·斯特兰奇（Melissa Strange）和自由意志党人杰里米·托德（Jeremy Todd）。
Republican Ed Gallrein, a retired Navy SEAL and farmer, is projected to win in the race to represent Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, a seat currently held by President Trump critic Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky), according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Gallrein, whom Trump endorsed, defeated Democrat Melissa Strange and libertarian Jeremy Todd for the seat. The president had stumped for Gallrein in the weeks leading up to Election Day.
在选举日前几周，总统曾为加尔雷因助选。据DDHQ称，截至周二下午6点20分，随着一小部分选票统计完毕，加尔雷因以29个百分点领先——得票率59%对30%。加尔雷因今年5月在共和党初选中击败了马西，以54.9%的得票率对马西的45.1%获得提名。马西多次与总统发生冲突，支持限制总统在伊朗军事行动的战争权力决议，主导立法要求司法部公开已故被判性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）相关档案，并反对共和党支持的支出法案。
Gallrein led by 29 percentage points — 59 percent to 30 percent — with a small share of the vote reported by DDHQ as of 6:20 p.m. Tuesday. Gallrein defeated Massie in the GOP primary back in May, securing the nomination with 54.9 percent of the vote to Massie’s 45.1 percent. Massie has repeatedly butted heads with the president, backing war powers resolutions that would limit the president’s military actions in Iran, spearheading legislation to require the Department of Justice to release files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and opposing GOP-backed spending legislation.
与此同时，根据其网站介绍，加尔雷因支持推进特朗普的许多优先事项，包括完成边境墙建设、为边境巡逻队和移民及海关执法局（ICE）提供资金，以及终止他所谓的“觉醒”议程。加尔雷因上个月对肯塔基教育电视台（KET）表示：“出于我当年参军的同一个原因，我现在参加竞选——为了服务这些人。2025年10月17日，特朗普总统跟我谈话，告诉我需要再次为我的选区、我的政党和我的国家服务，我回家考虑了，祈祷了。他请求我这么做，四天后，即10月21日，我宣布参选……为了服务这些人。他们理应得到这种服务。”
Gallrein, meanwhile, has supported advancing many of Trump’s priorities, including finishing the construction of the border wall, funding Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ending what he describes as a “woke” agenda, according to his website. “For the same reason I joined the service then, I joined for this campaign now - to serve these folks. When President Trump talked to me back on 17 October in 2025 and told me I needed to serve my district, the party, and my nation again, then I went home, thought about it, prayed on it. He asked me to do that, and then four days later, I declared on 21 October to enter the race…to serve these folks. They deserve that,” Gallrein told KET last month.
当KET询问他是否会在当选后向总统宣誓效忠时，加尔雷因表示：“我宣誓效忠的是宪法和主。”“如果你看看国会议员的誓词，还有我参军时宣读的军官誓词，正如我在26岁时所说，我发誓效忠两样东西：宪法和主。到此为止。我的忠诚就在这儿。此外，我为之服务的人民，我向他们负责。就这么简单明了，”加尔雷因说。
Asked by KET whether he would pledge blind loyalty to the president if elected, Gallrein said, “What I pledge allegiance to is the Constitution and the Lord.”“If you look at the oath of the congressperson, and then also the officer oath that I took when I joined the military, as I said at 26 years old, there's two things that I swear to: the Constitution and the Lord. Full stop. That's where my loyalty is. And then, furthermore, to the people I serve, I answer to them. It's as straightforward as that,” Gallrein said.