Freedom Caucus Chair Wants To Stop The Certification Of His Primary In A Key City

Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told Steve Bannon on his “War Room” podcast Monday that he plans to challenge his primary outcome and hopes to stop the certification of votes in his district’s largest city due to his “lack of confidence” in the results.

Virginia Sen. John McGuire leads Good, chair of the House Freedom Caucus, by 344 votes overall in the state’s 5th District, though the June 18 race hasn’t been called yet for McGuire. Good has already said he wants a recount, which state law permits given the close margin.

The 5th District contains all or part of 21 largely rural counties and the cities of Charlottesville, Danville and Lynchburg. Lynchburg, the biggest city, is home to Liberty University, one of the country’s largest Christian universities. Good is ahead of McGuire by about 842 votes in Lynchburg.

“We’re going to be making the legal challenge in the next couple of days to demonstrate that Lynchburg, the biggest city, can’t be certified,” Good told Bannon, who has endorsed Good and campaigned for him in the days leading up to last Tuesday’s election. “There’s other concerns around the district with the results, but Lynchburg is the big key. That can’t be certified. There’s no confidence in Lynchburg’s results from either side, quite frankly.”

On Thursday, Good raised suspicions about “fires” occurring in three separate precincts on election day, writing on social media, “AI estimates the probability being 0.0000000318% chance.”

But election officials in the counties encompassing those precincts said they were fire alarms that didn’t significantly interfere with voting. In one case, the alarm was triggered by steam from a water heater, HuffPost reported Friday.

Good’s campaign said Monday its latest concerns were