a Virginia race that's going to tell us a lot about how exactly, how loyal exactly a person

needs to be to Donald Trump in the Republican Party to exist in the Republican Party as it's

currently made up.

Well, that race still has not been called.

It is so close.

Congressman Bob Good, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus,

is statistically tied.

You can see with State Senator John McGuire a Trump-backed

candidate who was at the Stop the Steel rally ahead of the insurrection. Joining

us now NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali.

So this is the head of the House Freedom Caucus as Republican, as conservative as they come,

as pre-Maga, if you will, as they come as pre magga if you will as they come and he is he's you know

face to face tied with this guy McGuire who's a state senator and who was at the stop of the steel rally.

Explain why this matters, why we're watching this race so closely.

Well, because you and I were talking about this race yesterday, Katie.

I went to the district on Friday it's been one that's

on our radars for a while because it says a lot about what a Trump

endorsement means what it means to have Kevin McCarthy play in a primary and of

course what the sway on the electorate is there.

When I talked to Congressman Bob Good and I went down to the district, he said nobody cares

about Kevin McCarthy.

Okay, maybe, I guess we're going to see, but everybody cares about a Trump endorsement.

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