Dave Brat, fresh off his stunning primary victory against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, is still in party mode.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told his doctors and debriefers that he was repeatedly tortured by his Taliban captors and was kept in a cage for extended periods after twice trying to escape, according to U.S. officials familiar with initial reports on Bergdahl’s condition.

President Obama said Thursday that he makes “no apologies” for freeing five Taliban commanders in exchange for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

With early vote-by-mail ballots partly counted, Republican Elan Carr and Democrats Ted Lieu and Wendy Greuel are in a tight battle to replace Henry Waxman in the Westside’s 33rd Congressional District. Carr has 23.4 percent, Lieu has 19.8 percent and Greuel has 18.5 percent. Spiritual guru Marianne Williamson is well back with 8.6 percent.

A former Bush administration official broke with Republicans on Tuesday to defend President Obama’s prisoner exchange, arguing that since “the war in Afghanistan is winding down,” the United States would be required to return prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay back to Afghanistan.

The frantic search for Bowe Bergdahl began the moment his comrades discovered he was no longer inside the fragile outpost in a rock-strewn valley in one of the most hostile corners of Afghanistan.

The parents of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl want the world to know they’re beyond grateful their son has been released from Afghanistan after five years in captivity, but the battle is far from over.