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What the latest primary election results say about the state of the GOP in 2024

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Virginia, Georgia and Oklahoma held primary and runoff elections Tuesday night and the results in some key races could say a lot about the state of the Republican Party this election cycle. Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Virginia, Oklahoma, and Georgia held primary and runoff elections last night, and the results

0:06.4

in some key races could say a lot about the state of the Republican Party this election

0:10.9

cycle.

0:11.9

Lisa Desjardan has been following it all closely and joins me now.

0:15.0

Lisa, let's begin in Virginia now where the chair of the House Freedom Caucus is in

0:19.7

danger of losing his seat to another Republican.

0:22.8

Tell us about the race and the results so far.

0:24.6

We are in extraordinary political times,

0:26.7

and this is one of the most extraordinary primary races

0:29.5

that we're probably going to see all year.

0:31.8

Now, we're talking about Republican Bob Good. He is the chairman of

0:35.2

the House Freedom Caucus. He had a Republican challenger. Both men, very conservative,

0:40.0

both men, big supporters of former President Trump.

0:42.8

Let's look at where this race is right now.

0:45.1

If you look at the total there, there you go.

0:47.3

Just barely within half a percentage point.

0:49.8

And my calculation is it's just 321 votes separate these two men right now.

0:55.0

But look at that, John McGuire.

0:56.6

He's a brand new state senator just took that office in January,

1:00.6

winning over the incumbent congressman by 321 votes right now.

1:05.0

What's the big difference between these two guys?

1:08.0

Let's look at this.

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