LYNCHBURG, VA — After a year of political missteps, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good finally, officially, suffered his worst misstep of all: a drawn-out defeat in his primary two weeks ago.
After election night on June 18, Good was down about 300 votes to Virginia state Sen. John McGuire. But with a few thousand provisional ballots left, no one dared call the race. Over the next two weeks, however, the slim margin held as election officials worked through the remaining ballots. Finally, Virginia Department of Elections officially declared McGuire the winner on Tuesday, with Good likely to demand a recount.
During a segment on Steve Bannon’s War Room last week, Good claimed he would file a legal motion to stop the certification of the vote in the city of Lynchburg, after pushing the narrative that the election was stolen from him. In the weeks since the primary, he’s made a strange claim that there were three “fires” on Election Day at different precincts. (The claim turned out to be inaccurate; rather than “fires,” three fire alarms went off, and they purportedly did not prevent anyone from voting.)