Liam Conner
Republican voters in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District will go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to hand House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good another term or replace him with Virginia State Sen. John McGuire, a former Navy SEAL , in a race that highlighted a divide within the Trump faction of the Republican Party.
The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election tracker, quotes the “Solid Republican” race, so the winner of the Republican primary will almost certainly win the general election in Southside Virginia.
Good, running for his fifth term, lost the support of both Kevin McCarthy-aligned Republicans after his vote for expel McCarthy as Speaker of the House and former President Donald Trump, after endorsing the former president’s main opponent, the governor of Florida. Ron DeSantis.
Good later endorsed Trump after DeSantis dropped out, but not enough for Trump, who posted on Truth Social, “It was too late” – and then endorsed his main challenger.
“Bob Good is BAD FOR VIRGINIA AND BAD FOR THE USA,” Trump he wroteadding, “I just want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and the person who can most help me do that is Navy Seal and highly respected state legislator, John McGuire, a true American hero.”
In a telerally for McGuire on Monday night, Trump said, “If he’s reelected, Bob Good will stab Virginia in the back, kind of like he did me.”
McGuire has also criticized Good in ads for his disloyalty to Trump. In a recent ad, McGuire holds a rifle while a narrator it says“Trump doesn’t need another traitor in Congress. He needs John McGuire – a straight shooter who always has his six.”
Not only does McGuire have the support of the former president, but he has also been endorsed by other Trump-aligned Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Freedom Caucus member Warren Davidson. Some of Good’s Republican colleagues in Washington came to the district to support McGuire, including Rep. Jen Kiggans of Virginia, who even helped raise funds for Good’s challenger.
But Good still has a range of endorsements from congressional Republicans like Reps. Matt Gaetz and Byron Donald of Florida and Virginia Rep. Ben Cline.
Outside groups, including the Club for Growth and the House Freedom Fund, also donated millions to promote Good’s re-election bid, while others – some with ties to McCarthy – spent millions trying to overthrow him. McGuire also narrowly indignant Well, $1.2 million to $1.1 million, according to federal election documents from May.
This will be McCarthy’s second attempt to remove one of the lawmakers who voted to remove him. He failed to dislodge Representative Nancy Mace, who won his primary last week.
Polls are open from 6 am to 7 pm ET on Tuesday.
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