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AFTER BITTER GOP PRIMARY IN THIS DEEP-RED VIRGINIA DISTRICT, MORE ANGER

After a bitter primary election between former congressman Bob Good and state
Sen. John J. McGuire III in Virginia’s 5th District, the local GOP is locked in
a feud.

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Virginia state Sen. John McGuire (R) speaks with voters outside an elementary
school in Lynchburg on June 18. (Craig Hudson for The Washington Post)
By Laura Vozzella
September 5, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. — Rob Reese stewed a good long while after Donald Trump
and establishment Republicans teamed up to topple his ultraconservative
congressman, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, in the GOP’s mid-June
primary election.

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Then in late August, more than two months after state Sen. John J. McGuire III
(R-Goochland) squeaked out a win in rural central Virginia, Reese decided it was
time to shift his attention to November. He drove two metal stakes in the ground
outside his small business on the main drag in Goochland County and attached an
eight-foot campaign sign — for Good.


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