Home Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good begged his supporters for money Monday to fund a recount whereas asserting plans to problem the certification of his seemingly major defeat.
Good (R-Va.) trails state Sen. John McGuire, who’s backed by former President Donald Trump, by 368 votes within the Republican major to symbolize the commonwealth’s fifth Congressional District.
“We imagine we did win,” Good, 58, insisted on former Trump White Home strategist Steve Bannon’s “Conflict Room” podcast.
“We’re going to be making a authorized problem within the subsequent couple of days to reveal that [votes in] Lynchburg, the most important metropolis [in the district], can’t be licensed,” Good added.
“There’s different considerations throughout the district with the outcomes, however Lynchburg is the large key,” he went on. “We can not win if we’re going to elect swamp creatures.”
Good has claimed that there have been a number of suspicious fireplace alarms that went off at polling stations the night time of the June 18 major, together with at his alma mater and former employer, Liberty College.
The alarm there was set off by cleansing gear and prompted a roughly 15-minute evacuation, in response to native officers.
“We had 3 ‘fires’ on election day in 3 precincts, all requiring the precincts to be evacuated for 20 minutes. Albemarle County, Hanover County, and Lynchburg Metropolis. What’s the chance? Does anybody recall even 1 fireplace at a precinct on election day?” Good posted on X June 20.
McGuire claimed victory over Good on major night time, telling supporters that “I’m your Republican nominee.”
The Related Press has not but known as the race for the state senator, and McGuire’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Below Virginia legislation, recounts should not automated, however the loser can request one if the margin is below one proportion level.
McGuire at present leads Good by 0.6 proportion factors.
“Assist this effort if you need true conservatives to win and never swamp creatures,” Good pleaded with Bannon’s viewers.
Exterior teams pumped an estimated $10.7 million into the first race, with greater than half of it aimed towards Good, per an evaluation from OpenSecrets.
“Simply have a look at who’s supporting my opponent. It’s the Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Eric Cantor varieties — the swamp people, the RINOs for whom the countless wars, allegiance to the economic army complicated — that’s who’s funding my opponent,” Good complained.
Trump, 78, had seemingly been rankled by Good’s prior backing of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis within the 2024 GOP presidential major. Good later switched to Trump after it grew to become clear he’d be the nominee.
Good was additionally one among eight Republicans who banded along with 208 Democrats to depose McCarthy (R-Calif.) as speaker final fall.
Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) additionally stumped for McGuire and cheered the Freedom Caucus chief’s obvious defeat on major night time.
Greene had been ousted from the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus final 12 months after a spat with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), whom Greene known as a “little b—.”
Whoever emerges from the first might be closely favored to carry the seat for the GOP within the Nov. 5 election.
