Determining the actual winner of the Virginia 5th District Republican primary between incoming House Freedom Caucasians chair Congressman Bob Good and Trump-backed revenge challenger state Senator John McGuire could take weeks as sorting through provisional and late-arriving mail-in ballots is likely to expand to a full recount of the 63,000 or so cast, the Washington Post reports.
Per the AP, McGuire’s lead sits at 321 votes as of their last update at 5:56 PM EDT on Wednesday, just a slight gain for Good from the 327 vote deficit he faced that morning. Again, if 98 percent of votes have already been reported, the uncounted remainder is probably about 1,250 ballots, of which Good would have to win about 75 percent to overtake McGuire and win. Tough, but not impossible, and also assumes that they won’t be fighting on the margins down to single ballots.