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WASHINGTON — Kevin McCarthy’s 2024 revenge tour is far from over.

Next stop: Arizona, where McCarthy, the former House speaker, hopes to exact 10 pounds of flesh from one of the eight Republicans who orchestrated his inglorious ouster last year.

That fellow GOPer is first-term Rep. Eli Crane, a retired Navy SEAL who currently holds Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District. ...

"Bob McGuire" ran a great race as challenger in a heated Virginia Republican primary election that was separated by about 400 votes.

So spoke Donald Trump on Friday, who took a brief moment out of his rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, to rip a fellow Republican's loss, whom the MAGA leader of the free world recently accused of being a backstabber.

But Trump — who has famously boasted of acing cognitive tests in recent days, including at Thursday's presidential debate — couldn't seem to figure out who, exactly, was his sworn enemy and who should receive praise. ...

WASHINGTON — If Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) is on a mission from God, as he maintains, someone might want to tell God already.

Since Virginia voters cast their Republican primary ballots on June 18, the two-term incumbent who chairs the far-right Freedom Caucus has been trailing his opponent, state Sen. John McGuire, by upward of 300 votes out of just over 62,000 ballots cast.

Good’s demanding a recount. He’s also trying to pray away “the forces of evil” conspiring against him. ...

With just 400 votes separating them, a Trump-backed challenger declared victory late Tuesday over incumbent Republican Bob Good in Virginia’s contentious 5th District primary, a race marked by Trump’s fierce denunciations and accusations of backstabbing against Good.

The race gained national attention in recent days when Good, the chair of the incendiary House Freedom Caucus, found himself in the crosshairs of a formidable enemy: former President Donald Trump. Trump openly attacked Good after he endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' ill-fated rival 2024 presidential campaign.

"John is running against Bob Good, who is actually bad for Virginia, and who will stab you in the back like he did me," Trump said in the video ahead of the primary."...

Congressional candidate John McGuire of Virginia received Donald Trump’s endorsement Monday in a closely-watched Republican primary campaign against incumbent Rep. Bob Good, chairman of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus.

The June 18 primary in Virginia’s conservative 5th Congressional District is tantamount to winning the general election, and the campaign between McGuire and Good has been mostly about which candidate has the greater fealty to Trump.

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in an interview with Politico released Friday hinted at the possibility of enacting vengeance on a GOP tormenter who helped end his tenure as House speaker.

McCarthy replied with sarcasm when Politico asked about news that Virginia state Sen. John McGuire, a former Navy SEAL, might run against Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), one of eight Republicans who voted in approval of his ouster.

“Really? I'm shocked,” McCarthy said of the potential primary challenger. “You mean the military guy? I heard something about him.”...