BREAKING: Rep. Denver Riggleman, who became a target of conservatives after officiating a same-sex wedding last year, was ousted Saturday by GOP voters in a drive-thru district convention
Rep. Denver Riggleman , who became a target of conservatives after officiating a same-sex wedding last year, was ousted Saturday by GOP voters in a drive-thru district convention.
Convention-goers picked Bob Good, a former county supervisor who ran to Riggleman’s right, especially on social issues, to be the party’s nominee in the general election. Good won the support of 58 percent of delegates who voted on Saturday, the district GOP chairman, Melvin Adams, said.Good’s victory came after a day-long convention held in the parking lot of a central Virginia church.
Riggleman decried the convention, which was delayed from earlier this spring because of the coronavirus, as a corrupt process that disenfranchised GOP voters in the district. As a safety precaution, some 3,500 delegates were asked to drive outside the church in Lynchburg to cast votes between 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m.
After the convention concluded but before results were announced, Riggleman said his campaign had received unspecific reports of “voting irregularities” and “ballot stuffing.”Virginia allows district party committees to decide whether to choose their nominees in primary elections or at conventions, which are open to a much smaller number of voters.
The district, which spans from the Washington, D.C., exurbs down to the North Carolina border, leans Republican. President Donald Trump won it by 11 points in 2016, and Riggleman beat his Democratic opponent by 7 points in the midterms.Riggleman is the third House incumbent to be denied renomination in 2020, joining Reps. Dan Lipinski and Steve King , who lost primaries earlier this year.
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