Trump Endorses Primary Opponent of House Freedom Caucus Chairman
Former President Donald Trump mentioned Bob Good is unhealthy for Virginia.
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed the first opponent of Home Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-Va.).
In a put up on his social media website, Fact Social, President Trump mentioned that Mr. Good, who initially endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis within the GOP presidential major earlier than throwing his weight behind President Trump, isn’t loyal to him and that “the injury had been finished.”
In the identical put up, President Trump mentioned that Mr. Good’s major opponent, Virginia State Senator John McGuire, who served within the Navy, would assist additional President Trump’s Make America Nice Once more agenda.
President Trump mentioned that Mr. McGuire “is powerful on crime, will shield our nice Army/Vets, and can at all times defend our below siege Second Modification.”
The Epoch Occasions has reached out to the Good marketing campaign for remark.
In an obvious try to stay in President Trump’s good graces, Mr. Good, together with a handful of different GOP lawmakers, traveled to New York in assist of President Trump amid his court docket case in Manhattan the place he has been charged with 34 counts of allegedly falsifying enterprise information associated to a cost he made to grownup movie actor Stormy Daniels forward of the 2016 election. Stormy Daniels is an grownup movie performer whose actual identify is Stephanie Clifford.
Mr. Good mentioned that the case exemplifies “what lengths the Democratic Occasion will go to to attempt to rig or steal one other election.”
“They tried to do it in 2020. They’re doing it right here once more in ‘24 by attempting to maintain the nominee off the poll, by attempting to maintain the nominee from campaigning, by attempting to damage the nominee financially and we’re seeing that at this time,” he mentioned.
President Trump isn’t the one one trying to oust Mr. Good within the June 18 major.
Defending Major Road, an excellent PAC affiliated with practically 90 Republican lawmakers within the Republican Major Road Partnership, has been spending greater than $450,000 to defeat the GOP incumbent.
Mr. Good has gone towards his social gathering quite a few instances through the present Congress, similar to when he was one among eight Republicans who joined all Democrats in ousting former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Home Speaker in October.
Mr. Good has represented Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District since January 2021. He was first elected in 2020 after upsetting incumbent Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) in a drive-thru conference that came about in lieu of a major, successful 58 % of the vote. He then defeated Cameron Webb, a Democrat, within the normal election.
Mr. Good was re-elected in 2022 after defeating enterprise proprietor Josh Throneburg, a Democrat.