Trump Eyes Revenge In Virginia Primary; Race Too Early To Call
Laura Coates Live
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jim Acosta in for Laura Coates. On this Tuesday night we begin |
| 0:06.8 | with breaking news in that so-called MAGA Civil War in Virginia's fifth congressional district, Congressman Bob Good tonight, the head of |
| 0:14.4 | the Ultra Conservative House Freedom Caucus is fighting for his political career. |
| 0:18.6 | Results in the primary there show him neck and neck against his Trump-backed challenger John McGuire, the race at this |
| 0:25.4 | point, you see it on your screen right now. It is too close to call. Now if Good loses, it'll be a |
| 0:29.8 | major win for Donald Trump, no doubt. But what if good pulls this one out you saw those |
| 0:35.0 | numbers a few moments ago it is close what then after all Trump did try to put |
| 0:39.4 | his finger on the scale in this race to try to exact revenge on good the sin that good committed it was endorsing Governor Ryan |
| 0:47.9 | DeSantis in the primary against Trump good tried to make up for it by |
| 0:51.9 | eventually endorsing Trump. |
| 0:53.4 | Look at this. |
| 0:54.0 | He showed up, even showed up at Trump's criminal trial of Manhattan. |
| 0:57.5 | That did not work. |
| 0:58.7 | Good was also one of the eight Republicans who voted to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. |
| 1:04.0 | McCarthy has not gotten over that. He too has spent time, energy, and money to try and |
| 1:09.2 | get revenge on good. And joining me now, a former Republican congressman from Colorado, Ken Buck. |
| 1:15.9 | Congressman, thanks so much for being with us. What's your impression of watching these |
| 1:20.4 | results come in? You served alongside Bob Good in Congress and as a member of the |
| 1:25.9 | House Freedom Caucus, this one's tight. |
| 1:28.3 | I mean, for Trump getting involved in the race and getting behind the |
| 1:33.6 | challenger in this race it's pretty darn close. |
| 1:36.7 | Well it's an impressive performance by Bob Good, frankly. |
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