Morning Digest: Recount confirms Freedom Caucus chair still a loser

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● VA-05: Thursday's recount confirmed state Sen. John McGuire's tight victory against House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good in the June 18 Republican primary for Virginia's conservative 5th District. McGuire finished with a 370-vote advantage over the head of Congress' notorious far-right bloc, a slight drop from the 374-vote lead he began the day with, and the incumbent conceded that evening. 

Good's narrow defeat, which comes after he infuriated Donald Trump by endorsing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' doomed presidential bid, puts him in a small club that nobody wants to be in―and no, it's not the Freedom Caucus.