“[The money] didn’t come from regular people. It’s come from billionaires, and 95 percent of it - at least 95 percent - has come from the Israeli lobby,” Massie said, specifically naming Aipac; the Republican Jewish Coalition; Christians United for Israel; and a trio of billionaires that have dominated the US election landscape: Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson - none of whom are from Kentucky.

“Their position is more war, it’s more strife, it’s more bombs, it’s more foreign aid, and those are the things that I’ve been voting against. So the real reason that this race is a serious race, and I may lose, is because a foreign lobby has fully funded to the extent that they’ve never done in any Republican race ever before,” Massie said.

Massie has raised some $5m for his campaign, but $10m alone has been spent running attack ads against him in Kentucky, including an AI-generated video of him going into a hotel with members of “The Squad” - the progressive female congresswomen in the Democratic Party.