GOOCHLAND, Va. — For Rep. Bob Good, today’s primary is about much more than the next member of Congress representing Virginia’s 5th District.
“The nation is watching,” the Virginia Republican told a few dozen supporters gathered outside the county’s historic courthouse on a sweltering Friday night. He warned that this race is about the “swamp of the D.C. establishment who wants to buy your seat.”
Good, who chairs the far-right House Freedom Caucus, has told his supporters that he is former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s top target as McCarthy tries to unseat the small group of Republicans who ousted him last year. McCarthy’s first attempt failed last week when Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina won her primary.
But McCarthy is just one player against Good in a race that could make him the first member of Congress to lose to a primary challenger this year. There’s also the most prominent endorsement in Republican politics working against him: former President Donald Trump.
Trump endorsed Good’s opponent, state Sen. John McGuire, a former Navy SEAL and participant in the “Stop the Steal” rally late last month. The former president made a veiled reference to Good endorsing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the presidential primary, writing on social media that Good “was constantly attacking me and fighting me until recently.”
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