Bob Good’s House antagonists take victory lap over Virginia primary

Republicans who campaigned against House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) in his primary against state Sen. John McGuire are seeing the race as a victory, even as it remains too close to call.

With bitter anger about Good’s vote to yank away former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) gavel in large part fueling the opposition to him, those who worked against Good say the race should serve as a warning against the kind of tactics, style and demeanor that contributed to discord in the House. 

“He represented, for many of us, what was wrong with this Congress, the dysfunction. And he was sort of part of the soul of it — the seed of all this dysfunction,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who endorsed McGuire.