The race was tight—really tight; Virginia state senator John McGuire beat Representative Bob Good in the June 18 GOP House primary by only 374 votes out of the nearly 63,000 cast. It was so close that Good demanded a recount, but the end result remained the same: McGuire defeated Good, chair of the House Freedom Caucus, by a very narrow margin (370 votes, four less than in the original count). The judge overseeing the matter confirmed it:
“Mr. McGuire received more votes than Mr. Good and is the winner of this election,” Chief Judge Claude Worrell II said from the bench, concluding the recount.
McGuire, a former Navy SEAL who had earned the endorsement of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, acknowledged his victory on social media:
This recount reaffirmed what we already knew from the June 18th primary.
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